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Volume XIII
Number 4
April, 1921
rf Missions
IN JAPAN
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CHRISTIAN fim CHURCHES
YOU ARE NEEDED
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Help to Hit
the Mark
LAST month we told you the story
of Ito, the Master Archer. We
are presenting this month the
picture of Professor T. Demura,
Dean of North Japan College, who
is also an enthusiastic archer. It
was snapped while he was giving an
exhibition at one of the Summer
Missionary Conferences some years
ago. During Dr. Schneder's ab-
sence from Japan while attending
General Synod last spring, Professor
Demura served as the Acting Presi-
dent of the College.
Perhaps you have been wondering
why we are giving archers and arch-
ery such a prominent position. We
are doing so with a direct purpose
in mind.
You may remember that Ito made
the wonderful record of shooting
3,000 arrows at one standing.'' We
need something more than 3,000 new subscribers to reach a circulation of
15,000. We are asking the Secretary of Literature or other representative in
each congregation to put forth every effort during Outlook of Missions Week,
May 1 to 7, with the hope of securing a total of Three Thousand New Sub-
scribers !
You will recall that Ito ''hit the mark" with 2,908 out of the 3,000 arrows.
May our faithful representatives be equally successful !
OUTLOOK OF MISSIONS WEEK
May 1 to 7
OBJECT : To place Tht Outlook of Missions in every home of the Reformed
Church.
IMMEDIATE GOAL : 3.000 New Subscribers.
SUGGESTIONS: Use the program prepared for the Public Meeting by Mrs.
Edwin W. Lentz.
Send for Advertising Leaflets
Distribute Sample Copies
Report Early
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Outlook of Missions. Reformed Church Building, Fifteenth and Race Streets,
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The Outlook of Missions
Headquarters : Reformed Church Buildiog, Philadelphia, Pa.
Published Monthly by the Board of Foreign Missions, the Board of Home Missions and the
Woman's Missionary Society of General Synod, Reformed Church in the United Stftea
Contents for April
THE QUIET HOUR 14(5
GENERAL
We Trust You 147
A Study for the Eye 148
A Meditatiou 149
The Immigrant an Asset to the Nation 149
The Passing Mark 150
HOME MISSIONS
A Nonagenarian 15.'i
At Ellis Island 153
Notes on Home Missions 154
The New Synodical Evangelist 15(5
A Standardized Plan for an Evangelistic Campaign 157
Observations of the Treasurer 159
The Commission on Social Service and Rural Work 160
Church-building Funds 162
Book Reviews 165
FOREIGN MISSIONS
A Meditation on the Forward Movement 167
Religion is the Chief Concern 168
An Appeal for a New World 168
The Church at Morioka 169
Why Practice Medicine in China? 169
Converts at Yochow 169
Volunteers for the Ministry in North Japan College 170
New Courses Needed in Eastview Schools 172
The World's Sunday School Convention 173
How a Banker Views the Orient 175
A Sunday in Sendai 176
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Editorial — Comrades in Anxietv 179
The Institutes of 1920 ' 180
Prayer Calendar for May 181
Under Old Brooklyn Bridge 182
Harvesting Souls in Berry Patches 185
Literature Chat 187
A February Organization Trip 189
Young Woman's Missionary Auxiliary 190
The Mission Band 191
Our Honor Roll 191
Missionary Finance 192
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3fn returnms anb rejSt gjjall pe be siabeb; in quietness; anb m confibence sifjaU
be pour sitrengtlj. — 3lgaiat) 30 : 15.
Foresight is very wise, but foresorrow is
very foolish; and castles, at any rate, are bet-
ter than dungeons in the air.
— Sir John Lubbock.
"Laugh at the world, and with the world.
Keep your soul above the shadows, true to
God and to your task, and you will not lack
for compensations."
Be not afraid; 'tis I that stand,
In every danger, near at hand.
The winds are still, at My command.
— Henry van Dyke.
Unless your prayer life is sufficiently real
to move you in thought and in will to do the
thing that you know ought to be done, it is
not genuine at all.
— Harris E. Kirk.
We see them not — we cannot hear
The music of their wing —
Yet know we that they sojourn near,
The Angels of the Spring!
—Robert Shepherd Hawker.
I love all the pleasures and interests of life
just because they are part of an infinitely
bigger affair. If there wasn't that in them, I
don't think I should care about them.
— E. F. Benson.
Oh, praise to God, who looks beyond the deed.
Who measures man by what a man would be,
Who crowns defeat with His victorious palms,
And rears upon our marshes of despair
The thrones and mansions of eternity!
— Amos R. Wells.
We make the labor problem by not under-
standing it. Let us give as much thought to
developing the latent power in labor as we
have given to developing steam and electricity.
Then there will be no labor problem.
— Roger Babson.
'Outbound our course is headed;
Sea room waits yon; behind us all our
fears.
Free ocean's space holds nothing to be
dreaded
Nor perils lie in God's eternal years."
I do not ask for any crown
But that which all may win,
Nor seek to conquer any world
Except the one within.
Be Thou my guide until I find,
Led by a tender hand.
Thy happy kingdom in myself.
And dare to take command !
— Louisa M. Alcott.
To be called friends by our Master, to
know Him as the lover of our souls, to give
Him entrance to our hearts, is to learn the
meaning of living, and to experience the
ecstasy of living. The higher friendship is
betowed without. money and without price, and
is open to every heart responsive to God's
great love.
— Hugh Black.
Closer is the Lord's protection
Than a near investing wall ;
Closer than a moat around me;
Closer than a tower tall;
Closer than a suit of armor.
Or my hands and feet can be;
For against my own assailing
His protection keepeth me!
— Amos R. Wells.
No form of Christian piety has separated
itself from Christ; and. therefore, there is
nowhere any real obstacle to prevent Christ-
ians from returning through their fellowship
with Christ to fellowship with each other. The
unitv of Christendom is unity in Christ, the
unity of mem'bers with their Head; and this
unity has never been broken for any who
"love the Lord Jesus Christ in uncorruptness."
— W. R. Inge.
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The Prayer
UR Father, we would learn to keep silence before Thee. Our lives are like the
surging sea, tossed bv care and need. We pray for the grace of silence, that so
we may hear what Thou hast to say to us. For Christ's sake. Amen.
— John Gardner.
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OUR MOTTO : The Churcn a Missionary Society— Every Christian a L\fe Membtr
THE
Outlook of Missions
VOLUME Xm April, 1921 NUMBER 4
We Trust You
THIS is a time to trust one another. It is a sacred thing to ask, for
it implies sincere confidence and earnest expectancy-
In a recent issue of one of the leading dailies we saw that a
popular magazine had a full-page advertisement to tell the reading public
that in its April number a noted writer would contribute a special article.
This set us to thinking. If it requires such publicity to sell even a
single issue of a magazine with over a million subscribers, what must it
require to obtain THREE THOUSAND NEW SUBSCRIBERS to our
missionary magazine— THE OUTLOOK OF MISSIONS?
We do not have the money to pay solicitors, much less to invest in
paid advertisements.
But we take heart in the thought that our readers, who now num-
ber nearly twelve thousand, will come to our help in the May Campaign.
The best way to sell an article is by proving its worth. We believe
that all our readers will agree with us that the ''Outlook of Missions"
is worth its price. The one criticism that we hear, over and over again,
is that the price of the magazine should be one dollar instead of fifty
cents. Everything is in favor of this criticism — the high cost of paper,
cuts and printing.
Some of us have the conviction that by adding thousands of new
readers to our list of subscribers it will in the end reduce the cost of
publication. In this we may be mistaken, but before we must raise the
price we would like to ask every friend of the "Outlook of Missions" to
take an active part in the SEVEN-DAY CANVASS for new subscribers.
It may be said by increasing the number of subscribers we will only
add to the deficit which is already greater than the Boards of Home and
Foreign Missions feel they should carry. We are willing to run the risk.
Help to increase the number of subscribers. You will then encour-
age the Editors, contribute towards the expenses, and scatter the good
news of Missions into many homes that will be glad to receive it.
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[April,
A Study for the Eye
nr HE cut on the coveis page of this issue
**" affords a study for the eye ; yes, but
only that through the eye it may enter
the mind and touch the heart. To the
people who wear "iblue" glasses, this may
not furnish any stimulus to continue the
good work in Japan. But do not let the
eyes rest too long on the number of
shrines and temples. Let them move
slowdy down over the Torii and fix them
on the churches. The 1,039 churches
for 60 years of missionary effort is a
mighty fine showing for Japan, although
it may not be a compliment to Christian
America. If we had made proportionate
response to the many appeals that have
come to us from our faithful mission-
aries, the number of churches could have
been multiplied, at least, tenfold.
But our present concern is not so
much with the number of places of wor-
ship as with the quiet, penetrating and
diffusive influence of the Gospel. The
question is, what progress is being made
by the Ghristian forces in Japan? Is Jesus
being enthroned in the hearts of the
people? Do the young men and women
who graduate f rom the mission schools
testify by their walk and talk and work
of the faith that is in them? Are they
making any real contribution to the work
of the Kingdom of God ? All these ques-
tions are answered by a ringing Yes. We
know that many thousands of Christians
are living witnesses to the power of the
/Gospel, and are not ashamed to confess
Jesus before their fellow men.
The real intent of the cut, however,
is to drive home the appeal for more
workers. Great is the need for young
men and women who will devote their
lives to real evangelistic work in Japan.
There they will find an inviting field for
their best talents and noblest aspirations.
In Japan You Are Needed.
THE OUTLOOK OF MISSIONS
CIRCULATION, 11,700
Big Dividend from a Country Sunday
School in Japan
The Rev. K. Mito, of Mikage, Japan,
in his paper on ''The Rural Life and
the Sunday School of Japan" prepared
for the World's Sunday School Conven-
tion, gave the following facts from his
early experience. He stated, "When I
was the pastor of a church years ago,
I started a little Sunday School in the
village nearby. The children met in a
barn, and on Christmas Day, when we
were having a special service, we heard a
cow lowing in the stable a few yards
from the place. I felt as if we were
celebrating the first Christmas in the old
village of Bethlehem. I never dreamed
that anything great would come out of
that work, but the fact is we have had
a treasurer of the church, the president
of a Christian Endea\or Soc ety, one
Methodist minister and one faithful pas-
tor's wife as the result of that almost
insignificant work. These experiences
afiford us great stimulus and encourage-
ment. I believe in country evangelism/'
Since the Tokyo Conventicn, many new
Sunday Schools have been organized and
the attendance at nearly a'l the schools
has been greatly increased.
"The impulse to right living, to true think-
ing, to real progress depends on faith in the
spiritual truths of Christianity rather than on
the humanitarian instincts of the philanthro-
pist and the moralist. Man may be good but
not righteous; he may be moral but not re-
ligious. These motives are good but not the
best, We need the best today. A righteous-
ness founded on religious faith will give us
the best. It must dominate humanity if we
are to have a better world in the future."
We belong to a bewildered and shattered
world. Why bewildered and shattered? Be-
cause we men who occupy this world have
not allowed God to work out His purpose of
infinite love in and through us. Human lead-
ers are inadequate to meet the need of the
moment. Human wisdom is but as ignorance
when we face the appalling threats which
menace us, and we turn from human leader-
ship and human wisdom to Christ, the one true
guide.
— Charle.s H. Brent.
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A Meditation
It is an old saying that we would not
appreciate the sun, were it not for the
clouds. The snow, the wind, the rain
and the sun all work harmoniously to-
gether— to make the carpet of green,
which dotted here and there with flowers
is beautiful indeed.
God gave to man this beautiful world
to enjoy and all the seasons contribute
to its beauty. It seems strange, however,
that in the fullness of his joy in living,
he loses sight of the fact that only by
comparison with what is past, can he
have any happiness.
In the radiance of the sun he is blinded,
and in his pleasure of just living he for-
gets the one permanent thought that
should actuate every impulse — that of
gratitude toward Him who has given
him all the faculties through wdiich he
can enjoy these blessings.
Man loves sunshine — he lives in it —
he impatiently bears his cross, he strug-
gles and rebels in the gloom. Patient
cross-bearing is the flower-making time
of his life. If he could have the vision
to see what the apparent gloom meant for
him, he would plod on to the end and
claim his reward. The growth of his
soul would be worth the istriving; he
would be changed as is the piece of mar-
ble in the hands of the sculptor, but the
chang^e would be made by the touch of
the Hand Divine — the touch of the Mas-
ter who bore His cross to Calvary..
What a change! The dark and lonely
soul made so by suffering would be
changed to one of sunshine and beauty.
To do His work now — here in the
twentieth century — is the only plan that
was mapped out for man.
To do it means sacrifice, but it means
sunshine — sunshine eternal later on.
Elizabeth W. Fry.
THE OUTLOOK OF MISSIONS
IN EVERY HOME
OF THE REFORMED CHURCH
The Immigrant an Asset to the Nation
While the tide of immigration may
often bring to our shores a number of
"undesirables," it also adds to the wealth
of our nation. A recent illustration has
been brought to the attention of our
people and deserves a place in our col-
umns. Mr. Richard Spillane, in "Men
and Business" in the Public Ledger
writes :
"Incidental to a hearing Monday be-
fore the Public Service Commission in
New York, the American Tele])h()ne and
Telegraph Co. introduced evidence that
the use of the Pupin coils efifects an econ-
omy of $3,543,000 a year in the opera-
tion of the telephone in that city.
This is a bit of proof of the debt
of this nation to the immigrant. It
was the Pupin coil that made long-dis-
tance telephone possible. The coil was
the invention of Michael Idvorsky Pupin,
a Serb, who, as a boy, came to America
a stowaway. Today there are other in-
ventions that supplement the Pupin coil
or supplant it in some respects, but it
still is of great worth in adding to the
conductivity or capacity of the telephor-e
wire.
Pupin today is a professor in Columbia
University. If one of his inventions ef-
fects an economy of $3,543,000 a year,
approximately $10,000 a day, in one city,
it would be reasonable to say his value
to the land of hjs adoption goes into the
scores and scores of millions of dollars.
Exceeding care must be given in these
times in relation to the horde of immi-
grants seeking entrance into this countrv
through Ellis Island. But care must be
exercised no less to exclusion of the un-
fit or undesirable than to seeing that the
possibly or probal)ly useful are not de-
barred by too rigid application of rules.
There's plenty of room for the sturdy,
the enterprising and ambitious. Some
men whose names are written big in the
record of America came across the seas
in immii^rant shi])s, and there's no rea-
son to believe their kind are not among
those who now look with eager eyes to-
ward the Land of Promise at whose gate
Eibertv holds high the torch to light the
way." '
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The Outlook of Missions
[April,
The Passing Mark
THAT man earns little respect who
does his work no better than will
barely suffice to pass inspection.
In school days there was a definite
percentage set which we must reach at
an examination. If we did not reach it,
there was trouble for us at home; if we
far exceeded it, we were praised.
We have put away childish things, and
life's tests are those that no human
teacher appoints or appraises. But w^e
are aware that we must reach a stand-
ard or be written down a failure.
Merely to pass is little. Around us
is a great crowd of human beings, like
unto ourselves. They want for the most
part what we want, and life as a rule
is not kinder to them than it is to us,
though we may think so and envy their
good fortune.
If we would achieve a distinction be-
yond that of the rank and file we must
work, and work hard for it. Labor is
what counts, not influence. All the
letters of introduction in the world will
■not help unless we can qualify on our
own account.
We must not be content with the
minimum requirement asked of us.
"Give all thou canst; high heaven re-
jects the lore
Of nicely calculated less or more."
The leaders are those who employ all
their powers and forget the task-mas-
ter's eye. They colicentrate on any-
thing that they do, be it little or large.
The same quality runs through every
performance, whatever the size.
No important executive station in
any enterprise is long entrusted to a man
unless he rises to the height of the ex-
ecutive responsibility. If he thinks of
anything but the best he can do, and
if he merely shuffles along, with a per-
functory fulfillment of a task assig'ned,
he will be found forever in an inferior
station. He has no ambition. He ab-
hors initiative. He is satisfied to look
no higher and to seek "no further. He
is content to plod along on a dreary
level of mediocrity.
The man who is satisfied with a mere
passing mark in his day's work has no
right to remonstrate if those whose aim
is high and whose zeal is burning go
above him, any more than the zany at
school, content with the foot of the
class, has a right to object to the one
who, by earnest application and aggres-
sive efifort, stands at the head of it.
The slothful and the ambitioHless need
not expect to be heeded when they revile
one who struggled and succeeeded be-
cause they remained where they are and
he rose to eminence. — Public Ledger.
A Sunday School Forwai-d Movement
in Korea
Beginning with October, 1921, the
special attention of the churches in Korea
will be given to increasing the member-
ship and helpfulness of the Sunday
School. Rev. J. G. Holdcroft. of Pyeng
Yang, who just returned to the United
States for a few months, in a letter to
the World's Sunday School Association,
states, "Everybody is thinking Sunday
School. There is a great field for the
Sunday School in Korea, and it may be
the greatest movement we have seen since
1908, when literally thousands upon
thousands crowded into the church.
There is an awakening over the whole
land." The leaders in Christian work in
Korea feel that they cannot adequately
take advantage of the opportunity with-
out having trained Sunday Scliool speci-
ali'sts who will work with the mission-
aries and native Christians. One man is
needed to devote himself exclusiv^ely
to the preparation of Sunday School les*
sons and teacher-training institutes and
classes. A Sunday School field worker
should be set aside for this work by each
of the leading denominations in Korea,
and in addition, two ladies should be
sent out to look after work for the chil-
dren and the classes for young women.
For the coming two years at least, a
number of Koreans will give a large part
of their time to conduct Teacher-training
classes. In the Presbyterian Church,
composed of the Presbyterian Church
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North, South, Canadian and AustraHan,
request has been made that in each of
the thirteen presbyteries a man be en-
gaged to work within the bounds of the
respective presbytery. The Methodists
are making a similar plan for their Con-
ferences. A strong appeal has been made*
to the World's Sunday School Associa-
tion, begging that some trained worker
be sent out from America for at least
six months, who would inspire, and co-
operate with, the workers in Korea. Mr.
Holdcroft says, *'If you cannot find one
man able to do about three men's work,
send us three such men. They should
arrive in Korea soon after September
first in order to attend Conferences, Gen-
eral Assembly, etc., when final plans for
the Sunday School drive will be made,
and then they could work all winter long
in a cause which would be a joy to them
as long as they live."
World. Wide Sunday School News.
OUR AIM rOR 1921
15,000 SUBSCRIBERS
THE OUTLOOK OF MISSIONS
IN EVERY HOME
WEEK OF MAY 1-7
A "Lost" Village Found
Already the nation-wide census of Ja-
pan is uncovering things unknown to the
Japanese themselves. According to the
Alaiyu Shimbun, a village with a popula-
tion of 340 which has never been listed
in any Government record and has not
even a name has been found in Gumma
Prefecture by preliminary census inves-
tigators.
This village is situated on the ui)per
Arakawa, at the foot of the Mikuni Pass,
about 2 miles from Kanai. Although
there are 39 houses in the village, it has
not even a name. The Maiyu says that
the inhabitants live on fruits and the flesh
of ibirds and game and exchange goods
by barter. — Japan Advertiser.
A Place of Honor in a Kindergarten
Little George Nace is making friends
with the dear Kindergarten children in
Japan. He was quite a favorite at our
Summer Missionary Conferences last
year, and we believe that he will hold
this place in the affections of the mem-
bers of our Japan Mission. Old heads
may not be willing to accept the idea of
the unity of the race, but young hearts
will.
Baby Nace in the Midst of Friends in Tokyo.
152
The Outlook of Missions
[April,
Easter
The meaning of Easter and its message
of joy, the revival of hope and the buoy-
ant renewal of our aspiration come to
an old and tired world and pervade our
lives even as the springtide floods and
fills the meadows with her everlasting
miracle.
By an irresistible human impulse, we
seek out our finest and most fashionable
raiment, and that impuls'e is parallel to
the natural processes in the world about
us. If the earth can put oft" her drab
habiliments of winter and forget the som-
ber, sunless hours, so can the children of
earth. In every life today there may be
a resurrection from the dead. In every
life old things may be discarded. He
has not caught the spirit of the festal cele-
bration who is not stirred to a renewal
and is not moved to forsake the darkness
and give welcome to the light.
It is more than a church festival. Be-
liever and unbeliever together share the
influences of the day. In each of us,
whatever creed we formally profess, there
dwells the feeling that the day betokens.
It is the assurance that life is worth the
living and that love can never lose its
own. We stand today not at the hrink
of a tom)b but on the threshold of this
eternal life and of this love immortal.
— The Public Ledger.
The Story of the Auierican Red Cross in
Italy. By Charles M. Bakewell. Publishers,
the Macmillan Companv, New York. Price.
$2.00.
The writer announces that the purpose, of
this book is not to give a full recital of Red
Cross activities in Italy, but simply to tell
American givers how their money has been
spent. Great has been the work of alleviat-
ing suffering, and through it all our nobble Red
Cross workers translated into deeds the soul
of America. Speaking of the Red Cross in
general our own heroic Pershing said: "Since
the world began there never has been a work
for humanity conducted on so large a scale
with economy, efificiency and despatch.'' Mr.
Bakewell starts his narrative with Italy's en-
trance into the War and then shows the
supply work done by the Red Cross in manv
places when the situation was at its darkest.
But what is of most value in that work is the
contribution made througn it to the greater
cause of permanent peace.
Fine Tribute to Foreign Students
The Philadelphia Chamber of Com-
merce recently gave a dinner at the
Bellevue Stratford to about five hundred
students from foreign countries now
resident students in the University of
Pennsylvania. Each student we under-
stand was the guest of some leading citi-
zen. That such an affair should engender
the kindliest of feeling goes without say-
ing. In no better way can we, as Ameri-
cans, show our appreciation of the pres-
ence of these foreign friends than by our
acts of hospitality. We are glad to know
that this dinner is to be an annual affair,
for we believe it will bear rich blessings
to our fair land. The University of
Pennsylvania has /become a sort of mecca
to the students from the four corners of
the earth, and these young men will be-
come the future leaders in their home-
lands.
Perhaps no other country in the world,
with the possible exception of India in
earlier days, has been so afflicted with
flood and famine as China. The Yellow
River, "China's sorrow," alone has been
responsible for the loss of millions of
lives from floods and perhaps the loss of
even more lives from famine, because the
famines have been brought on at times
by the destruction of crops by floods, al-
though at other times by lack of rain.
Jeremiah W. Jenks.
The Summer Missionary Conferences
this year will prove of more than ordin-
ary interest. The new Secretary of the
Mi'ssion Study Department, Rev. A. V.
Casselman, is arranging to be present at
each of the conferences and will deliver
his lecture, which will be illustrated by
stereopticon and moving pictures. The
text book for Home Missions this year
will be "The Unfinished Task," by H.
Paul Douglass.
The Rev. Arthur P. Schnatz, North
Hamipton, Ohio, pastor of Union Charge.
Miami Classis, in sending in ten new sub-
scribers, stated: "We started our cam-
paign early as I have four churches.
More subscriptions will follow."
Home Missions
Charlbs E. Schaeffer, editor
Elder C. M. Boush.
A Nonagenarian
This distinguished honor belongs to
Elder C. M. Boush, of Meadville, Pa.,
who on March 19th, celebrated his tiine-
tieth birthday. Elder Boush has served
the Board of Home Missions for a per-
iod of forty-six years. For the greater
part of this time he was the Treasurer
of the Church-building Fund Department
and also served as the Attorney for the
Board, which office he now holds. Dur-
ing all these years Elder Boush has
proven himself one of the most aggres-
sive members of the Board, and although
his physical powers are weakened by
reason of his many years, his mental
grasp is still vigorous and his interest
in the work of the Board is as keen as
ever. The Board of Home Missions ex-
tended heartiest congratulations and feli-
citations to this aged servant on this sig-
nificant occasion.
Classes for foreign-born mothers of
school children are conducted as a part
of the public school system of Los
Angeles.
At Ellis Island
The activities of The General Commit-
tee of Immigrant Aid at EUis Island
during the past year have abundantly
justified the convictions of its organizers.
The handling of immigrants was restored
to Ellis Island on February 16, 1920. The
Committee immediately made application
to the Department of Labor at Washing-
ton for an increase in the number of ap-
proved immigrant aid workers from sev-
en to fifteen. Ultimately, action favorable
to this request was obtained and the com-
missioner requested our Committee to re-
commend eight additional candidates for
full time service at the Island. Out of
fourteen applications considered by the
Committee eight were approved by the
necessary government authorities and re-
ceived their passes to begin work about
the middle of August. Increased co-
operation on the part of the Government
has made possible a great increase in its
usefulness. A bright, well located room,
near the main entrance to the principal
building, was assigned as the headquar-
ters of the workers in place of the dingy,
poorly located quarters previously occu-
pied. The Government also secured the
services of Col. Helen Russell Bastedo,
who was appointed Director of Social
Service at Ellis Island to co-ordinate
and supervise the activities of the several
Immigraiit Aid Workers. Her leadership
has resulted in greatly increased efficien-
cy in the amount of work accomplished
and in the quality of its helpfulness.
Negotiations are pending with "The So-
ciety for Italian Immigrants, Inc.," "The
Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid
Societ}'," and "The Council of Jewish
Women," for their membership on the
Committee. When this is done all so-
cieties maintaining workers at the Island
will be actively enlisted on the Commit-
tee.
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Notes on Hom^ Missions
Rev. E. E. Young has resigned the
East Market Street, Akron, Ohio, Mis-
sion, to become the pastor of .the Re-
formed Church at Greenville, Ohio, on
April 1st.
Jft 5iC *
Rev. J. F. Reimers, of Bluffton, Ind.,
has been called to the Mission at Warren,
Penna.
* * *
Student J. O. H. Meyer, of the Mis-
sion House, Plymouth, Wis., v^ill become
the new pastor of the Egg Harbor City
congregation, which has been enrolled as
a Mission under the Board.
^ 5k *
Student W. H. Diehl, of Central
Theological Seminary, Dayton, will be
the pastor of Mt. Carmel Mission, near
Dayton, Ohio, which the Board recently
enrolled.
* * *
Student Fred Wentzel, of Lancaster
Theological Seminary, will assume
charge of the new work at Rosedale,
Reading, Pa.
* * *
The Mission at Omaha, Neb., on Feb-
ruary 27th, celebrated the fact that they
are now free of debt through the Pro-
gressive Project of the Interior Synod.
The Board has turned over the deed to
the property.
* * *
The following are some of the Mis-
sions that are contemplating to purchase
property or to build new buildings within
the next year or two: — Lowell, Canton,
Ohio; Grace, Canton, Ohio; Third,
Youngstown, Ohio; Grafton Avenue,
Dayton, Ohio ; Heidelberg, Dayton, O. ;
St. Peter's, Lancaster, Pa. ; Trinity, Buff-
alo, N. Y.; Tabor, Philadelphia, Pa.;
Olivet, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Central Ave.,
Indianapolis, Ind. ; Denver, Col. ; St. Jos-
eph, Mo. ; Los Angeles (Japanese) ;
Ridgewood, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; St. Luke's,
Baltimore, Md. ; Emanuel, York, Pa. ;
St. Mark's, Baltimore, Md. ; Dewey Ave-
nue, Rochester, N. Y. ; Trinity, Lewis-
town, Pa. The building of these churches
will make heavy demands on the Board
of Home Missions. The Board is al-
most entirely dependent upon the money
which it will receive from the Forward
Movement in the financing of any or all
of these projects.
* * *
Treasurer Wise reports the following
legacies recently received by the Board
of Home Missions : —
Dec. 7, 1920— Estate of William V.
Zartman, Columbus, O., — $500.
Dec. 14, 1920— Estate of Samuel V.
Doll, Frederick, Md.,— $1,000.
Dec. 16, 1920— Estate of William A.
Schall, Frederick, Md.,— $500.
Jan. 6, 1921— Estate of Dr. A. C. Whit-
mer, Waynesboro, Pa., — $500.
Jan. 15, 1921— Estate of Mrs. Louisa
Kelker, Harrisburg, Pa.,— $4,000.
Feb. 14, 1921— Estate of Kate Bat-
dorf, Myerstown, Pa., to be known as
"The Amanda SchoU Bequest"— $100.
There are a number of other bequests
that will soon be due the Board.
sjc jjc >}:
The Sunday School of our Japanese
Miission in San Francisco, California,
of which the Rev. J. Mori is pastor, now
numbers 136.
* * *
The Rev. E. R. Williard, D. D., of
Akron, Ohio, a member of the Board
of Home Missions completed a series of
Evangelistic meetings in Ohmer Park
Mission, Dayton, Ohio, also in Grafton
Avenue Mission, Dayton, Ohio. Large
audiences were in attendance and an ex-
cellent spirit was shown.
* ii« *
Rev. William Diekmann will leave his
work in connection with the Jewish Mis-
sion in Brooklyn, New York, on April
1st. A farewell meeting was held on
the evening of March 30th. The General
Secretary of the Board of Home Mis-
sions was present and also the Rev. J.
S. Kosower, of Baltimore, who has taken
the place of Brother Diekmann as man-
ager of this Mission.
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The Anniversary Service of the Ja-
panese Mission, Los Angeles, CaUfornia,
of which the Rev. T. Kaneko is the pas-
tor, was held on Sunday, February 6th,
at 2.30 in the afternoon. The occasion
was a most interesting one, with a very
large audience and an impressive service.
Rev. J. Mori, ipastor of the Japanese
Mission at San Franciisco, preached the
sermon. Rev. G. von Gruenigen, pastor
of the First Reformed Church of Los
Angeles, and Rev. S. Kawashima, Presi-
dent of the Japanese Federation of South
California, delivered addresses. A num-
ber of the members of the First Church
were also present. Mrs. L. L. Anewalt,
Treasurer of the Woman's Missionary
Society of General Synod, who has been
'Spending some time in California, also
delivered what was reported as being "a
most beautiful address." After the ser-
vice tea was served and a group picture
taken, which is shown in this issue of
The Outlook of Missions. These Ja-
panese people are very happy over their
efforts and are looking forward to doing
larger things.
* * *
Mrs. Wm. Wolfe, of the Academy for
Colored Boys and Girls at Bowling
Green, Kentucky, is rejoicing over the
fact that kind friends in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, have sent shades for all the
windows of the iGirls' Dormitory. These
are greatly needed and the girls are very
grateful for them. The school now
numbers 126 pupils. Mrs. Wolfe fur-
ther writes: — We have our Inter-racial
Meeting tomorrow evening. These con-
ferences are telling wonderfully in the
feeling and treatment of our people here
in the South. A little more prayer, a
little more tact and patience will solve
the negro problem that has been talked
about all these years. God's Kingdom is
coming with rapid pace in the hearts of
men and in His own good time man
will learti that he is his 'brother's keep-
er' in spite of race, creed or color."
♦ * *
There is much activity in the Hungar-
ian Mission at Akron, Ohio, according
to the report of the Missionary, Rev.
Arpad Bakay, who says, "Many of our
men are still out of work, but the house
of worship is being regularly attended.
In our preaching and pastoral work we
are endeavoring to develop the personal
religious life of the members. We have
many occasions to serve the physical and
social, as well as the spiritual needs of the
people. Recently our young people gave
a Hungarian play at the South High
School, which was well attended and im-
mensely enjoyed, judging from the ap-
plause. At present, a varied program, to
be given in connection with our obser-
Anniversary Service of the Japanese Mission, Los Angeles, California.
156
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[April,
vance of March the 15th, is under pre-
paration. The young folks of the church
have given several short but interesting
programs at their 'Tea Evenings,' during
these winter months."
* * *
Rev. Ellis S. Hay, of Grace Mission,
Toledo, Ohio, reports : "Eighty per cent,
of our people attended services during
February and 'drilled' for the 'push* of
March. March program is 'Campaign
for New Members.' Slogan 'Make March
Memorable.' Prospects are fine."
* * * »
The report from Rev. J. K. Wetzel,
pastor of St. Paul's Mission, Juniata,
Pa., is as follows : "We observed Foreign
Mission Day on the date set with a very
helpful program in the morning, when
Supt. Mullan was with us, and with an
illustrated sermon on the Educational
work in Japan in the evening. The offer-
ing was $25. There was an attendance
of 216 in the Sunday School. Our new
Balopticon is wonderful and will help
us very much in our work. Every one
is enthusiastic about it. I am going to
put on a Friday evening program of
pictures and lectures next winter for the
boys and girls of the church and com-
munity. Dr. Paul S. Leinbach was with
us on last Sunday evening and gave a
very fine sermon."
* * *
The campaign to clear away the $1,000
debt resting against Grace Mission, Balti-
more, Md., of which the Rev. E. R.
Hamme became pastor on January first,
has been completed, and everything is
moving along most encouragingly.
THE OUTLOOK OP MISSIONS
IN EVERY HOME
OF THE REFORMED CHURCH
Rev. Rufus C. Zartman, D. D.
The New Synodical Evangelist
The Commission on Evangelism, in
compliance with the action of the Eastern
Synod last October, has appointed Dr.
Rufus C. Zartman as Synodical Evangel-
ist for this Synod. He has accepted the
call and will enter upon his duties April
15th. For the last thirty years Dr. Zart-
man has been the efficient pastor of
Heidelberg Reformed Church, Philadel-
phia, and his leadership has built up a
strong and efficient congregation. Prior
to his coming to Philadelphia he was the
pastor of Grace Reformed Church, Ak-
ron, Ohio, and also served for a short
time the Reformed Church at Wooster,
Ohio. By temperament and training Dr.
Zartman possesses all the qualifications
of an eflFective Evangelist. He is a thor-
ough-going student of the Bible and a
mah of deep inspiration, insight and pow-
er. He will be formally installed to this
responsible position on the evening of j
April 17th, in Heidelberg Reformed j
Church, Philadelphia. He will open his !
campaign the following week in St. John's !
Reformed Church, Shamokin. This I
will be followed by a similar campaign j
at Pleasantville, Pa. A large field of j
usefulness opens up before this man of
God, and under the blessing of God he
will have many souls as a reward for his
labor.
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A Standardized Plan for an Evangel-
istic Campaign in the Local Church
I. A Period of Preparation :
1. Through organization. — Small
and effective committees on survey,
personal work, music, finance and pub-
licity.
2. Through pulpit and regular ser-
vices.— At least four weeks prior to
opening of special services. Sermons
and worship — aiming to quicken the
spiritual life of the congregation and
deepen its sense of evangelistic respon-
sibility for its own unchurched and for
the Community. Enlistment of per-
sonal workers.
3. Through prayer meetings. —
Stimulating the regular Wednesday
night service, or developing cottage
prayer meetings, using the unit system
of dividing the congregation.
4. Through special training of per-
sonal workers by the pastor or some
other qualified leader.
II. A Period of Special Services.
The pastor being his own evangelist
or securing a special evangelist. Com-
bining thorough-going preaching, per-
sonal work and instruction of inquirers.
Ingathering of members and final con-
firmation service .
III. A Period of Conservation.
1. Cultivating the new members by
social fellowship; (a) in their own
homes; (b) in social fellowship meet-
ings in unit groups of the congrega-
tion; (c) in similar fellowship meet-
ings in Church.
2. Enlistment of new members in
service; (a) enrollment in Bible
Classes; (b) in specific Church work,
if possible in some of the subordinate
organizations of the congregation; (c)
linking up new members with commun-
ity service wherever possible.
IV. Offerings.
It should be understood that the
offerings received during the special
services should be devoted to the fin-
ancial support of the campaign.
V. An Official Report.
It is expected that the pastor, either
himself or through a special committee
on a history and record of the cam-
paign, including the results and the fin-
ancial facts, prepare a final report and
present it to the consistory for adop-
tion. This same report shall also be
submitted to the Commission on Evan-
gelism.
The New Synodical Evangelist
FOR some years past, Ohio Synod has
had a Synodical Evangelist. Eas-
tern Synod, at its last annual meet-
ing held in October, 1920, authorized the
creation of a similar office and requested
th^ Commission on Evangelism of the
Board of Home Missions to nominate
and elect an evangehst. At a meeting of
the Commission held Thursday, Decem-
ber 9, 1920, in the Reformed Church
Building, Philadelphia Pa., Rev. Rufus
C. Zartman D. D., of Heidelberg Re-
formed Church, Philadelphia, was elected
to fill the new office. A joint meeting
of the Executive Officers of Eastern Sy-
nod, and the Executive Committee of the
Commission on Evangelism was held on
January 4, 1921, Lancaster, Pa., at which
the report of the action of the Commis-
sion, relative to the election of
Dr. Zartman was made. Conjointly
the Synod and the Commission ex-
tended the of?icial call to Dr. Zart-
man. After mature consideration, he
accepted the call March 1st, 1921.
The joint committee officially received
the call and made provision for the in-
stallation of Dr. Zartman as Synodical
Evangelist of Eastern Synod in Heidel-
berg Reformed Church. Philadelphia,
Pa., April 17, 1921. Dr. C. E. Schneffer
and Dr. Zartman were appointed the
committee to make all necessary arrange-
ments.
It is significant of the need for a Sy-
nodical Evangelist that Dr. Zartman has
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[April,
already received the following invitations
to conduct ^special se^vices :
St. John's, Shamokin, Pa., Rev. C. B.
.Schneder, D. D.
Pleasantville Reformed Church, Rev.
Paul W. Yoh.
Mount Hermon, Philadelphia, Pa.,
Rev. C. B. Alspach, D. D.
St. Andrew^'s, Lancaster, Pa., Rev. J.
Hunter Watts.
Christ Church, Bath, Pa., Rev. W. U.
Keiffrich.
St. Paul's, Allentown, Pa., Rev. E.
Elmer Sensenig.
First, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Rev. J.
(Rauch Stein.
St. Luke's, North Wales, Pa., Rev. F.
W. Teske.
Trinity, Tamaqua, Pa., Rev. Arthur C.
Thompson.
Grace, Mt. Carmel, Pa., Rev. Alfred
Gonser.
St. Paul's, M-anheim, Pa., Rev. Edw.
H. Zechman.
Grace, Easton, Pa., Rev. O. H. E.
Rauch.
Faith, Lancaster, Pa., Rev. Daniel G.
Glass.
St. Stephen's, Lebanon, Pa., Rev. Ed-
ward F. Weist, D. D.
The Commission on Evangelism was
keenly conscious of the nature of the
request of Eastern S>nod to nominate
•and elect an evangelist for the Synod, atid
further, to consider ways and means for
'his support, and to define the nature of
his work. It is natural tliat the consider-
ation of the development of the work of
■evangelism throughout the whole Church
and the unified method of procedure
should claim the attention of the Com-
mission. At the meeting above mentioned,
the Commission thoroughly discussed
ihis problem. As a temporary plan until
the meeting of Synod next fall, it was
decided that the Synodical Evangelist
should conduct his work under the joint
supervision of Eastern Synod and the
Commission on Evangelism. The fol-
lowing are the conditions under which
the services of the evangelist may, there-
fore, be procured : The Church engaging
his services shall pay, first, his traveling
expenses ; second, shall provide room and
board for him during the time of the
special services; third, shall give a free-
will offering to the Board of Home Mis-
sions, through its treasurer, J. S. Wise.
The Executive Ofiicers of Eastern Synod
and the Executive Committee of the
Commission on Evangelism heartily com-
mend Dr. Zartman and his work to the
churches. The present auspicious begin-
ning of it promises a bright future.
I. Calvin Fisher,
President of Eastern Synod.
Edward S. Bromer.
President of the Commission on Evan-
gelism.
Training School for Rural Ministers
The past year has been the greatest in
the history of the Christian Church in
the training of rural ministers. More
rural pastors have been given special
training in up-to-date rural church
methods in the past two years than in the
previous twenty-five years. A dozen of
schools have been held by several denom-
inations co-operatively.
The interdenominational schools were
held for the most part at State Agricul-
tural Colleges, though a few were held
at denominational schools. These tax
supported schools often furnished free
lodgings and gave the meals to the minis-
ters at cost, and, in addition, furnished
a considerable portion of the faculty
without cost.
These training institutes lasted from
ten days to three weeks. Most of them
lasted the full three weeks. The curri-
culum included the following subjects:
Bible Study. Homiletics, Evangelism,
Religious Education, Rural Sociology,
Rural Economics, Organized Play,
Church Building and Equipment, Church
Finances, Rural Church Methods, Pro-
grani of the Church in an Industrial
Community and a large number of sub-
jects pertaining to home and community
problems. The instructors in these schools
Home Missions
159
numbered over three hundred. As a rule
they were selected from the most success-
ful pastorates in the land. The Federal
Government, through their State Exten-
sion Service, furnished over a hundred
of these teachers to the churches with-
out cost.
Observations of the Treasurer
J. S. WISE
TUESDAY, March 15th, was a glori-
ous aay. The sun shone and all
about me were the evidences of
early spring. I left Canton, Ohio, o^ a
through train to Philadelphia. As i
looked out of the car window, I noticed
that the grass was everywhere beginning
to push its bright green blades through
the dry, dull covering of winter. How
cheerful one feels at this season ! Every-
thing in sight is seemingly throbbing with
new life and makes a fellow feel as
though he wanted nothing in all the
world, so much as to get out and dig.
Visions of the early garden loom big!
How ambitious we are! Unhesitatingly
we vow to start work at once in our
garden, forgetting for the time being all
the backache, all the sweat, and the
determination of last year never to at-
tempt aliother one. How easily we for-
get!
Now the industrial zone appears, and
for miles in and out of Pittsburgh, the
emotions of the morning are changed.
The dull, dark, smoky appearance of sky
and field dissipates the longing to dig, and
inspires quiet satisfaction in the thought
that we are not compelled to tug and
toil alongside of the besmudged and
'black-faced men everywhere in sight.
These are the steel workers and miliers
with their unlit lamps fastened to their
greasy caps, and craftsmen of every sort.
These scenes differ somewhat from
those of several months ago. The activ-
ity, the pep alid push, the everybody-
busy air is lacking. Too many men are
standing idly by. The production of
these men is greatly needed. In fact,
millions are suffering for lack of it. Why
are they not at work ? Ask them ; ask
the employers; ask the labor leaders; ask
the public. Each in turn will give you
a different answer. Selfishness and greed
are undoubtedly at the bottom of it.
Strangely all of these are absolutely
agreed in one thing, and that is, "I am
not at fault, but the other fellow is to
blame." There you have it. The great
question now is — can the Church, in this
emergency, so interpret the mind of
Christ as to induce these elements to apply
the golden rule — for it is pretty generally
accepted by thinking men that the love
of Christ and the application of the
golden rule is the only solution. Some-
body must dig! I sometimes wonder
what the effect w^ould be if every preach-
er in the land were to preach on the
golden rule every Sunday for several
months straight. It might be well worth
trying.
I hear some one say — how monotonous ?
So is digging. By constant digging the
world's work is accomplished. Refuse
to dig and there will be no beautiful gar-
den, no delicious vegetables, tio choice
flowers — starvation and misery is sure to
follow.
The scene shifts, and otice more I find
myself passing through rich farm lands.
After having passed over the Alleghenies,
it is even warmer than it was farther
West. The grass is greener, and some of
the trees are beginning to show their
bursting buds. As spring follows win-
ter, so, too, shall prosperity come again,
and the clashing elements of society will
find peace. It takes the sun to make the
spring and summer. The Church, like
the suti, can promote the atmosphere for
industrial peace. It can only be done,,
however, by persistent digsring, and in-
sisting on the efficacy of "Love one an-
other even as I have loved you." atid
also "Do unto others as you would have
others do unto you." Surelv that is the
business of the Church. Will she dig?
OUR AIM FOR 1921
15,000 SUBSCRIBERS
160 The Outlook of Missions [April,
THE COMMISSION ON SOCIAL SERVICE AND RURAL WORK
Rev. James M. MuUan, Executive Secretary
Report of Pittsburgh Synod's
Committee on Social Service
THIS committee has no new social
creed to present. The minutes of
General Synod of 1917 (pp. 138-
140) contain far more creed than any of
us have more than begun to hve.
What we do feel is most needed today
in the minds of churchmen is a better
understanding of the place of this creed
in Christian thought and a firmer deter-
mination to apply it in the varied regions
of rpodern life.
There are not two gospels: Individual
cind Social. There is but one and thai
one Christ's. Preaching and practicing
the implications of His Message for in-
dustry and for other human relationships
are just as original, just as essential parts
of keeping His commandment as plead-
ing His claims on the individual's heart.
We believe that the time has long since
come to cease discouraging or discounting
the social application in favor of the in-
dividual or vice versa, to stop saying
that if men's hearts are ''right," condi-
tions will take care of themselves or that
if the environment is favorable, men's
lives must be blessed. To say either is
to preach a half-gospel quite inadequate
to human needs.
We believe too that remedial social
service, the binding up of wounds, the
carrying of consolation, dare not be the
extent of the churchman'? interests or
activities. The love of Jesus which we
rightlv exalt ais the sole cure for the
world's sore ills is equally, if not primar-
ily, operative through the constructive
preventive social efforts of His children.
It is the eminent duty of the Church to
lend its inspiration and leadership to such
a reconstruction of society as will be far
more favorable to the living of a com-
pletely Chriistian life today.
We urge the members of Sytiod to
commend to the members of our churches
their manifest duty to attend with thought
and prayer and action to the various
departments of our social life with a view
to their Christianization :
The Political'. The value of the vote,
especially the newly won vote of woman,
should be unceasingly emphasized.
The Social : The members of our
(Churches need to be kept roused and
vigilant for the enforcement of Liquor,
Vice and Sabbath-Breaking laws, but
even more energy should be expended
in positive provisions for the physical
and moral health of the community; the
supervision of playgrounds, movies and
recreation in general; the procuring of
better housing facilities and the more
brotherly treatment of alien strangers
entering our gates.
The Industrial: Here the crisis is
more acute than elsewhere. The church,
by being timid and backward, has given
color to charges, most of them wild and
unfounded, that she has been the partisan
of reaction. We rejoice in the evidence
of a bolder and more serious effort to
investigate for herself the causes of .in-
dustrial unrest and social conflict.
The International: Too clarion a warn-
ing cannot be isounded that in the fray of
political partisanship we lose not the
vision and idealism that not so long since
we so ardently proclaimed.
Your Commttee looks forward in hope-
fulness to the work of the new Com-
mission on Social Service and Rural
Work and urp^es pastors nnd people to
co-operate with it in its efforts to help
our own Reformed Church build up His
Kingdom.
THE OUTLOOK OP MISSIONS
IN EVERY HOME
OF THE REFORMED CHURCH
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An Abstract of the Report of the
Committee on Social Service of
the Eastern Synod
IT is not the theory of social service
that concerns us now. The social
significalice of the Gospel and the
social duty of the Church are being rec-
ognized with growing conviction. In-
stead of stating a social creed, the com-
mittee submits an earnest summons to
social deed.
Determinative Principles
Three considerations guided the com-
mittee in formulating this report. First:
that the Christian ideal of the new social
order must be achieved gradually and
progressively. The Kingdom of God
Cometh liot by magic. It is a process
of spiritual transformation, subject to
the divine law of growth. Second : that
we have no divinely given methods for
the realization of our task. We have
no sacrosanct formulas, but we do have
the mind of Christ and that mind in us
must seek methods and create the mech-
anism for expressing itself in our com-
plex relationships. Third : that the so-
cial task of the Church in these times
is urgent. Our bitter need of a new and
better social order and God's boundless
redemptive purpose and power should
serve as mighty motives within the
Church to make social service the pivot
of our worship atid of our work, to make
the Christianization of the present social
order our supreme task.
What We Must Do
Four things are necessary :
1. Inspiration. We must preach the
Gospel of the Kingdom of God: that is
foremost, and must remain central and
fundamental. Our supreme task is to im-
bue men with the Spirit of God, through
the preaching of the Gospel. We must
send out from our churches men who
have seen the Father, and mati as His
child, heir to tlie ahnndant life that the
Father's love has purposed for all.
2. Action. We must translate our
Kingdom-creed into the terms of brother-
ly sacrilicial life. Here are great diffi-
culties inherent hi the very fabric of tlie
social order and in our individual spirit.
But in the face of these difficulties we
must seek to practice what we preach:
First, in personal and vocational loyalty
to the spirit and to the principles of the
Kingdom — the most direct approach of
the Church to the social order, and its
most practical impact upon its un-Chris-
tian spirit. Second, in the CJhurch's offi-
cial and corporate capacity by lending the
full weight of her spiritual authority and
the full strength of her organized body
to the obvious economic and industrial
significance of her spiritual principles:
and demanding their immediate applica-
tion to our social order, through such
measures, for example, as are designed
to develop and protect personality, secure
a democratic organization of industry
more consistent with brotherhood, and
secure a distribution of profits more
consistent with the principle of service.
Third, in more effective co-operation
among the various denominations and
branches of Christendom, such as is
])rovided by the Federal Council of
Churches. All of this we must do with
a full realization of the possible cost of
such loyalty to Christ.
3. Study and Investigation. The
Church should lead the way in an earnest
study and investigation of social condi-
tions and social solutions. This, in the
spirit of Christ, is our duty, in the con-
fidence that no other institution has the
sovereign remedy for our social ills. Pro-
visions should be made for the instruc-
tion of the clergy in the element? of econ-
omic and industrial problems ; and this
training should apply to the whole mem-
bership of the Church. To this end a
knowled^ire of the facts of our present
social order is indispensable. Such work
should be undertaken by Social Service
Commissions and the Churches should
support the Research Department of the
Commission on the Church and Social
Service of the Federal Council in the
development of this line of church action.
Tn this connection, the Synod recom-
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metids as a means of promoting the ends
mentioned, the use of the Church Forum
and the maintaining of Fraternal Rela-
tions on the part of the Church with
various groups, such as labor unions and
chambers of commerce.
4. Education. The supreme task of
the Church is the development of person-
alities who have the social vision and
the social will. This is primarily a great
educational problem. It deserves our
most ungrudging and generous spiritual
and financial support. To seize this op-
portunity we must first of all realize how
pitifully inadequate are all our past and
present programs of religious education,
then consciously and resolutely make all
the teaching agencies of the Church
{home, pulpit, Sunday School, young
j>eople's societies, religious press) the
direct channels for the propagation of
the Kingdom of (God and proceed to
.equip our theological seminaries for the
training of leaders of religious educa-
tion.
j Church Building Funds
J. S. WISE, SUPERINTENDENT
IT is very gratifying to be able to re-
port forty- six Church -building
Funds as having been enrolled from
October 1, 1920, to February 14, 1921,
four and one-half months. When we
consider the large gifts that are being
made to the Kingdom through the For-
ward Movement that the Church-build-
ing Funds are not forgotten, denotes very
clearly their strong position in the hearts
and minds of our people. Undoubtedly
the fact that our appeal for these funds
consists mainly in publicly promoting the
idea and stressino^ the thought that they
are made up entirely of voluntary gifts
is the secret of their power and influence.
The following is an extract from a letter
addressed to a local pastor by one of his
members in giving 'such a fund. It speaks
for itself.
"It is with great pleasure that I am
again permitted to honor our Heavenly
Father and His church. God's blessing
rested upon my dear wife and myself,
while we trod life's path together here
upon earth, and he bestowed upon us a
portion of His gifts that He permits His
children to accumulate. I know of no
better use to make a part of these funds
than to place them into the hands
of tho'se who are endeavoring to
establish God's Kingdom here upon
earth. I v/ill pray that God's speci-
al blessing may rest upon this fund,
wherever it may be used, and that it may
be a great help in extending His Kingdom
among my fellow men."
With such sentiment and faith back
of our Church-building Funds, no won-
der they have been the means of accom-
plishing so much good. The following
is a list of the forty-six funds referred
to, which I hereby gratefully acknowl-
edge.
No. 742. 'The Westmoreland Classi-
cal Missionary Society Special Church-
building Fund (W. M. S. IG. S., No.75)
of $500." Invested in Japanese Mission,
San Francisco, Cal.
No. 743. 'The Rev. G. Facius and
Rev. H. Nerger Church-building Fund of
$500." Contributed by Zion's Reformed
Church, Baltimore, Md., in their memory.
Invested in Grace Reformed Church,
Duquesne, Pa.
No. 744. 'The Jo'seph and Elizabeth
Jordan Church-building Fund of $1,000."
Bequest of R. Emma Hess (nee Jordan),
Milheim, Centre Co., Pa., in loving mem-
ory of her parents. Invested in Ohmer
Park Reformed Church, Dayton, Ohio.
No. 745. 'The Rev. Dr. and Mrs.
Henry H. Ranck Church-building Fund
of $500." Contributed by Miss C. May
Main, Washington, D. C. Invested in
Grace Reformed Church, Duquesne, Pa.
No. 746. "The Ruth Long Greager
Memorial Church-building Fund of
$500." Contributed by Dr. G. W. Ress-
ler, Ashland, Pa. Invested in Ohmer
Park Reformed Church, Dayton, Ohio.
No. 747. "The Mrs. Sarah Seiler
Memorial Church-building Fund of
$500." Contributed in her memory by
Mr. and Mrs. Felix G. Seiler, Shamokin,
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Pa. Invested in Ohmer Park Reformed
Church, Dayton, Ohio.
No. 748. "The Daniel Seiler Memorial
Church-building Fund of $500." Contri-
buted in his memory by Mr. and Mrs.
Emanuel G. Seiler, Shamokin, Pa. In-
vested ' in Grace Reformed Church,
Duquesne, Pa.
No. 749. 'The Mr. and Mrs. William
J. Balliet Church-building Fund No. 1 of
$500." Contributed by them— Members
of Paradise Reformed Church, Turbot-
ville, Pa. Invested in First Hungarian
Reformed Church, iGary, Ind.
No. 750. 'The Mr. and Mrs. William
J. Balliet Church-building Fund No. 2 of
$500." Contributed by them— Members
of Paradise Reformed Church Turbot-
ville. Pa. Invested in First Hungarian
Reformed Church, iGary, Ind.
No. 761. "The Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
K. Riegel Church-building Fund of
$500." Contributed by them — Members
of the Durham Reformed Church, Dur-
ham, Pa. Invested in Ohmer Park Re-
formed Church, Dayton, Ohio.
No. 752. "The Woman's Missionary
Society of General Synod Church-build-
ing Fund No. 76 of $500." Contributed
by the Woman's Missionary Society of
General Synod. Invested in Ohmer Park
Reformed Church, Dayton, Ohio.
No. 753. "The George W. and Anna
Catherine Shriver Church-building Fund
of $500." Contributed in loving memory
by their daughters Mary S. and Anna
N. Shriver, Fort Washington, Pa. In-
vested in Ohmer Park Reformed Church,
Dayton, Ohio.
No. 754. "The Anna M. Harris
Church-building Fund of $500." Bequest
of Anna M. Harris, of Faith Reformed
Church, Lancaster, Pa. Invested in
Trinity Reformed Church, Detroit, Mich.
No. 755. "The George W. Eyerly
Church-building Fund of $500." Contri-
buted by Charles H. Eyerly, Hagers-
town, Md. Invested in Trinity Reformed
Church, Detroit, Mich.
No. 756. "The Laura K. Eyerly
Church-building Fund of $500." Contri-
buted by Charles H. Eyerly, Hagers-
town, Md. invested iai Trinity Reformed
Church, Detroit, Mich.
No. 757. "The William G. and Alice
J. Hoke Church-building Fund of
$2,000." Contributed by William G,
Hoke, Hanover, Pa. Invested in First
Hungarian Reformed Church, Gary, Ind.
No. 758. "The Rev. John E. Stone
Memorial Gift Church-building Fund of
$500." Contributed by Trinity Re-
formed Church, Thornville, Ohio. iGiven
to Progressive Project of the Synod of
the Interior.
No. 759. "The Bethany Orphans"
Home Church-building Fund of $500."'
Contributed by the children of the Home.
Invested in First Hungarian Reformed
Church, Gary, Ind.
No. 760. "The Peter C. Prugh, D. D.,
Memorial Gift Church-building Fund of
$2,000." Contributed by William S.
Prugh, El Aliso, San Gabriel, Cal., in
memory of his father. Given to Japanese
Mission, Los Angeles, Cal.
No. 761. "The Abraham and Mary J.
Barnhart Church-building Fund of
$500." Bequest of Abraham Barnhart,
St. John's Reformed Church, Bedford,
Pa., in memory of himself and wife. In-
vested in Trinity Reformed Church,.
Detroit, Mich.
No. 762. "The Johannah R. Merkle
Church-building Fund of $500." Con-
tributed by Henry G. Merkle, Allentown,.
Pa., in honor of his mother. Invested!
in First Hungarian Reformed Church,.
Gary, Ind.
No. 763. "The J. P. Cronmiller Mem-
orial Church-building Fund of $500."
Contributed by Mrs. Susan R. Boob, of
St. John's Reformed Church, Mifflin-
burg. Pa., in memory of her brother.
Invested in Ohmer Park Reformed
Church, Dayton, Ohio.
No. 764. "The William V. Zartman
Church-building Fund of $500." Bequest
of William V. Zartman. Columbus, (^hio.
Invested in Ohmer Park Reformed
Church, Dayton, Ohio.
No. 765. "The B. Frank and Madora
Hartzel Church-building Fund of $500."'
Contributed by B. Frank Hartzel, Chal-
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font, Pa. Invested in First Hungarian
Reformed Church, Gary, Ind.
No. 766. "The' Samuel B. Doll
Church-building Fund of $500." Bequest
of Samuel B. Doll, Frederick, Md. In-
vested in Trinity Reformed Church,
Detroit, Mich.
No. 767. "The N. Lucretia Doll
Church-building Fund of $500." Bequest
of Samuel B. Doll, Frederick, Md. In-
vested in Trinity Reformed Church,
Detroit, Mich.
No. 768. "The Rev. Thomas C. Porter,
D. D., Church-building Fund of $500."
Contributed by Second Reformed
Church, Reading Pa. Invested in First
Hungarian Reformed Church, Gary, Ind.
No. 769. "The M. B. Memorial
Church-building Fund of $500." Con-
tributed by . Invested in
St. John's Reformed Church, Kanna-
polis, N. C.
No. 770. "The David Schall Memorial
Church-building of $500." Bequest of
William A. Schall, Reading, Pa., in mem-
ory of his father. Invested in St. John's
Reformed Church, Kannapolis, N. C.
No. 771. "The Reading Classis
Church-building Fund (W. M. S. G. S.
No. 77) of $500." Contributed through
the Woman's Missionary Society of Gen-
eral Synod. Invested in St. John's Re-
formed Church, Kannapolis, N. C.
No. 772. "The George J. and Sarah
A. V. Main Church-building Fund of
$500." Contributed by their children, J.
Calvin R. Main, Mrs. R. C. Althouse,
Rev. R. Franklin Main, Charles W. Main-
Esq., and Mrs. Anna S. Apple. Invested
in First Hungarian Reformed Church,
Gary, Ind.
No. 773. "The Redeemer Reformed
Sunday School Church-building Fund of
$500." Contributed by the Sunday School
of the Church of the Redeemer, Littles-
town, Pa. Invested in St. John's Re-
formed Church, Kannapolis, N. C.
No. 774. "The Peter and Mary Whit-
mer Church-building Fund of $500." Be-
quest of Rev. A. C. Whitmer, D. D.,
Waynesboro, Pa., in memory of his
sainted father and mother.. Invested in
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Fern Rock Reformed Church, Philadel-
phia, Pa.
No. 775. "The Mary Ethel Hoopes
Welsh Gift Church-building Fund of
$500." Contributed by Mr. and Mrs.
William E. Hoopes, York, Pa. Given to
Progressive Project of the Synod of the
Interior.
No. 776. "The Catherine Dickel
Church-building Fund of $1,000." Be-
quest of Louisa Kelker, Harrisburg, Pa.,
in memory of her deceased mother. In-
vested in Ohmer Park Reformed Church,
Dayton, Ohio.
No. 777. "The Daniel Dickel
Church-building Fund of $1,000." Be-
quest of Louisa Kelker, Harrisburg, Pa.,
in memory of her deceased father. In-
vested in First Hungarian Reformed
Church, Gary, Ind.
No. 778. "The George B. Kelker
Church-building Fund of $1,000." Be-
quest of Louisa Kelker, Harrisburg, Pa.,
in memory of her deceased husband. In-
vested in St. John's Reformed Church,
Kannapolis, N. C.
No. 779. "The Louisa Kelker Church-
building Fund of $1,000." Bequest of
Louisa Kelker, Harrisburg, Pa., as a
memorial. Invested in Grace Reformed
Church, Montgomery, Pa.
780. "The Susan Lerch Church-build-
ing Fund of $500." Contributed by
Christ Reformed Church, Bath, Pa. In-
vested in St. John's Reformed Church,
Kannapolis, N. C.
No. 781. "The Anna O. Swartz Hench
Church-building Fund of $500." Con-
tributed by Mr. H. F. Hench, husband,
and Louise C. Hench, daughter, in loving
memory. Invested in Ohmer Park Re-
formed Church, Dayton, Ohio.
No. 782. "The Woman's Missionary
Society of General Synod Church-build-
ing Fund No. 78 of $500." Contributed
by the Woman's Missionary Society of
General Synod. Invested in Ohmer Park
Reformed Church, Dayton, Ohio.
No. 783. "The Juniata Classical So-
ciety Church-building Fund No. 3 of
$500." Contributed by Missionary So-
ciety of Juniata Classis. Invested in St.
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John's Reformed Church, KannapoHs,
N. C.
No. 784. "The Mrs. Ida S. E. Trone
Memorial Church-building Fund of
$500." Contributed by Claude F. Trone,
of Grace Reformed Church, Washington,
D. C. Invested in First Hungarian Re-
formed Church, Uniontown, Pa.
No. 785. 'The Memorial Reformed
Church Gift Church-building Fund of
$500." Contributed by the Memorial
Reformed Church, Dayton, Ohio. Given
to Heidelberg Reformed Church, Dayton,
Ohio.
No. 786. "The Rev. Albert C. Dieffen-
bach, D. D., iGift Church-building
Fund of $500." Contributed by Rev.
Albert C. Dieffenbach, D. D., and the
membership of the Church of the As-
*cension, N. S. Pittsburgh, Pa. Named
in honor of the founder of the Church.
Given to Church of the Ascension, Pitts-
burgh, Pa.
No. 787. "The Melchior and Rebecca
Slinghoff Church-building Fund of
$500." Contributed by Rev. Charles H.
Slinghoff, Tov^er City, Pa. Invested in
St. John's Church, Kannapolis, N. C.
BOOK REVIEWS
A History of the Japanese People. By Capt.
F. Brinkley, R. A. Beautifully illustrated
with 150 engravings on wood by Japanese
artists, with half-tone plates, maps and an
index. Publishers, George H. Doran Com-
pany, New York. Price, $4.50.
The author was for many years editor of
The Japanese Mail. He went to Japan in
1867 as a professor in the Imperial University.
He married a Japanese and thoroughly identi-
fied himself with the life of his adopted coun-
try. In view of his intimate knowledge of
Japan, we know of no one more able to write
a history of the people who have made such
a potent impression on the modern world. In
the preparation of this matchless volume, Capt.
Brinkley had the valuable help of Baron
Kikuchi, who rightly declares that to really
know any people it is necessary to have a
thorough knowledge of their history, includ-
ing their customs, habits and traits of char-
acter. There is here a charming portrayal of
folklore, history and archaeology. War and
peace, arts and literature are set forth in
fascinating descriptions, and above all, the
impress being made by Christianity with its
pure ideas and lofty ideals, upon the people.
Twenty- four pages are devoted to the ever
present spirit of Christian Missions. The
study of such an illuminating volume cannot
help but to bring the Japanese nearer to our
hearts and make us estimate them at their
true worth.
Reminiscences of Daniel Bliss. Edited and
supplemented by his eldest son.' Fleming H.
Revell Company, publishers. New York.
Price, $2.20.
This is the life-story of a great missionary
educator. It is told in ten chapters, with nine
tull-page illustrations, and dedicated to his
students. Dr. Bliss was born in Vermont in
1823, and died in his home at Beirut in 1916.
He was a graduate of Amherst College and
of Andover Seminary. On November 23,
1855, he was married to Miss Abby Maria
Wood, and in December of the same year they
sailed as missionaries of the American Board
to Syria. A missionary career of over sixty
years, in the Moslem world, furnishes lights
and shadows that may well put to shame the
case-loving people of our day and generation,
-eater monument will ever honor the
of this valiant man of God than the
iiiiiutnce of the Syrian Protestant College,
whose founder he was, and over whose destiny
he presided for more than a half century.
"His spirit lives, as it always lived, in God."
Medical Missions. By Bishop Walter B. Lam-
buth. Publishers. Student Volunteer Move-
ment, 25 Madison avenue. New York, Price,
$1.00.
After one scans the 262 pages of this most
heart-searching volume, there can be only one
conclusion : this is the most clear-cut and con-
vincing presentation of the need for and the
character of, the medical missionary that has
issued from the press in recent years. The
nature of the disease in Oriental lands is
clearly set forth, as also the aim and scope of
the work and the kind of men God is calling
to this great task. As the author states, his
one endeavor has been "to place the medical
missionary and his work on the high level
w^here he belongs." We commend this book
to the voung men and women who are now in
our medical colleges. No one can read this
book and fail to realize the challenge to the
largest investment of faith and life.
The Dazvn of a New Era in Syria. By Mar-
garet McGilvary. Fleming H. Revell Com-
pany, publishers, New York.
Syria should be a land of special interest to
Americans, for "American philanthropy has
been pouring millions of dollars of American
money into Syria during the last five \nears."
As Secretary of the Beirut Chapter of the
Red Cross, the author has had manv advant-
ages to studv the conditions prevalent during
the Great War. How vividlv she depicts the
experiences of the Syrians while cut oflF from
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intercourse with the rest of the wnoie world!
The scenes in some of the chapters recall the
days of cruel Herod. AYnid all the horrors
and tortures of 1917 the Americans kept up
the spirit of hope and cheer regardmg the
ultimate course of events. The last chapter,
entitled, "The New Day," raises questions that
should stir the deepest impulses of every
Christian in our fair land. It may he too
much to expect that Syria will 'be born anew
in a day, but the challenge is held out to Amer-
icans not to turn a deaf ear to the prayer
for assistance. "Light has come, but it is
still too early to tell whether the sun will rise
clear and fair or whether it will be veiled in
clouds. We are watchers before the dawn."
Taft Papers on the League of Nations. Edited
by Theodore Marburg and Horace E. Flack.
Puhlishers, the Macmillan Company, New
York. Price, $4.50.
The Macmillan Company has rendered a
real service to the public by publishing in a
handsome volume these able and instructive
speeches and papers by Ex-President Taft. He
has been the most outspoken authority on the
formation of the League to Enforce Peace,
even before our nation became entangled in
a most bitter partisan fight over the Covenant
of the League of Nations. That Mr. Taft
was in full accord with the spirit of the
Peace League is plainly evident in all his
utterances. Bringing the text of the Versailles
document in such close proximity to his oft-
repeated favorable statements will make this
volume of great historic interest, and it
should be procured by all our citizens who are
taking an intelligent part in the final shaping
of a World Peace League.
The Call to Unity. By William T. Manning,
late rector of Trinity Church, now Bishop
of the Diocese of New York. Publishers,
the Macmillan Company, New York. Price,
$2.00.
Here are four lectures in which the learned
divine appeals to the Christian Church to show
the world a fellowship which transcends all
bounds of nation, or race, or color. The
chapters are based on: 1. The Call to Unity;
2. The Present Outlook for Unity; 3. The Ap-
proach to Unity, and 4. The Call to the Angli-
can Communion. Great emphasis is laid on
the need for a reunited Church, and the strong
desire on the part of Christians of all creeds
and customs for closer co-operation. No one
can read this earnest and eloquent appeal with-
out a fervent prayer that the day may soon
come when all Christians will dwell together
in the unity of the faith and in the bonds of
peace.
A Moslem Seeker After God. By Samuel M.
Zwemer. Publishers, Fleming H. Revell
Company, New York. Price, $1.25.
No one writes more ably or more interest-
ingly about the vast Moslem World than Dr.
Zwemer, who has been a life-long student and
worker among the millions of the Mohamme-
dan faith. In this volume he presents the life,
teaching and influence of Al-Ghazali, one of
the early outstanding characters in the Mo-
hammedan world. Ihis man was a rare com-
bination of scholar and saint, and as such
affords an insight into the real quest of life.
Dr. Zwemer says that "there is a real sense
in which Al-Ghazali may be used as a school-
master to lead Moslems to Christ." We are
to regard him as a true seeker after God.
He belongs to a small company of torch-
bearers in the Dark Ages, one of the deepest
thinkers, greatest theologians and profound-
est moralists of Islam.
A Greatheart of the South : John T. Ander-
son, Medical Missionary. By Gordon Po-
teat. Publishers, George H. Doran Com-
pany, New York. Price, $1.50.
The story of this young and strong mis-
sionary well entitles him to the name of Great-
heart. He was from youth a burning and
a shining light for Christ. At home, in college
and on the mission field, he made his life count
for the spread of the Gospel. His career
stands out as one of the greatest Student Vol-
unteers. Mr. Poteat, his life-long friend, has
rendered a fine and effective service in pre-
paring this brief biography, and it deserves a
wide circulation among the students of Amer-
ica.
Immigration and the Future. By Frances
Kellor. PubHshers, George H. Doran Com-
pany, New York. Price, $2.50.
There is no more perplexing prohlem be-
fore the American people today than that of
immigration. The labor element in our popu-
lation wants no immigrants to land on our
soil for a period of years. Business men an-
ticipate trade expansion, and therefore the
need of immigration. A horde of war-strick-
en paupers are eager to enter our ports. Shall
America become the asylum for foreign born?
What shall be done with the question of Amer-
icanization? These are only a few of the
many questions that fill the pages of this
thought-provoking volume. Whether all read-
ers will agree with the author or not, one
thing is sure, they will find some very live
and wholesome food for earnest study within
these 268 pages.
The Myth of the Jewish Menace. By Lucien
Wolf. Publishers, the Macmillan Company,
New York.
This booklet is a refutation of a series of
articles which appeared in 1920 in The Morn-
ing Post, of London, under the caption of
"The Cause of World Unrest." From the
author's viewpoint, the editor's implied ac-
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Foreign Missions
AULiEN B. BABTHOIiOMBW, EDITOR
A Meditation on the Forward
Movement
THE Forward Movement had its birtii
at the Special Meeting of the Gen-
eral Synod held at Altoona, Pa., on
March 6, 1919. Its foster mother has
been the Forward Movement Cornmis-
sion, also a creature of the same General
Synod. Fresh impetus was given this
child at the regular meeting of the Gen-
eral Synod held in Reading last May.
The Forward Movement is the most ad-
vertised enterprise in the Reformed
Church, and it is being patronized by our
best pastors and members. Without cast-
ing any reflections upon the thus far
splendid achievements of the Forward
Movement, we have a feeling that it is
only in its infancy. As such we should
not expect the "impossible" from those
who have been its leaders and counsellors.
That it has already accomplished a great
deal more than its most sanguine pros-
pectors had hoped for goes without say-
ing. And it is not done growing. Every
day one hears of this or that congrega-
tion that is accepting its quota, making
the canvass, and happy for doing it. The
end is not yet. And the end will not
be at the close of the five year period.
This leads me how to say what I be-
lieve was in the minds and hearts of the
brethren at Altoona, who were inspired
by the spirit of God. and that is that the
Forward Movement is to be a perennial
source of inspiration to the life of our
beloved Church.
Wise, indeed, were the members ot
the Forward Movement Commission in
bringing home to the consciousness of all
our people that the first, great and vital
goal of the Forward Movement must be
the quickening of the spiritual life, — a
new birth into the Kingdom of Heaven.
They also, after a re-study of the Spiri-
tual Resources, made it knowti that b\-
searching the Scriptures, by family de-
votion, by regular church going and by
frequent communion with the Lord at
the altar in the sanctuary, can the soul
be built up in the most holy faith and
in the exercise of those heavenly graces
which make men strong, courageous and
helpful in the work of the Lord. The
facts were also laid bare in the eyes of
our members, that only as they hold their
lives and their possessions as a divine
trust, and are willing to freely surrender
them for the extension of the Kingdom
of God, can they expect to reap the
richest blessings from their lives and pos-
sessions.
The aim of the Forward Movement
has been, and is, to bring home to our
people their personal responsibility to the
work of the Lord. In order to make this
possible, a great deal of time, money and
energy had to be spent in publicity. All
this has "not been a misapplied force. It
has paid a thousand fold, and the real
benefits will only be felt in the future
permanent work of the Church.
Our Church has never had such an
inspiring Easter observance. From all
over the Church the cheerful tidings come
of overflowing audiences, of record-
breaking accessions and of unusually
large offerings. May we not regard this
as one of the first signs of spiritual im-
pact of the Forward Movement upon the
life of the Church? We have come into
a new era as a result of the fervent
prayers, earnest labors and willing sacri-
fices of a united Church. There is a
growing sense of responsibiilty to the
Kingdom of God that is changing the
lives of thousatids of our members. A
new hope has been kindled in many
hearts. God is with us. and we are
praying that all the ends of the earth
ma\' see the salvation of our Lord and of
TTis Christ.
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Religion is the Chief Concern
Among the hymlis in the old hymn
books was one that rftight well deserve
a place in the hymnals of modern times.
Its first two lines ran thus :
''Religion is the chief concern
Of mortals here below/'
This is putting in simpler form what
Hon. William Howard Taft had to say
of Religion in his Boston address. He
said :
"A people without religion are lacking
in the greatest aid to the progress of so-
ciety through the moral elevation of indi-
viduals and the community."
Developing his argument for the "neces-
sity for the infusion of the religious spirit
into the prevailing morality for the pur-
pose of giving it life and persistent in-
fluence, Mr. Taft continues:
"Go to Church!
"There are doubtless many individuals
who live a moral and upright life who
are not conscious of religious faith or
feeling, or fen^or ; but however this may
be in exceptional cases, it is the influence
of religion and its vivifying quality that
keeps the ideals of people high, that con-
soles them in their suffering and sorrow
and brings their practices more*tiearly in-
to conformity with their ideals."
"The study of man's relation to his
Creator and his responsibilty for his life
to God energizes his moral inclinations,
strengthetis his self-sacrifice and restraint,
prompts his sense of fraternal obligation
to his fellow men, and makes him the
good citizen without whom popular gov-
ernment would be a failure."
This observation is based upon experi-
ence which the former President says that
any one who has studied the life of a
people from the standpoint of a respon-
sible administrator must recognize. Four
years as governor general of the Philli-
pines — chief executive of 7,000,000 orie'n-
tals, among whom were Christians, Mo-
hammedans and pagans — and four years
more as President of the United States
lead Mr. Taft to say:
"The longer and more ititimate my
knowledge of their political and social
lives the more deeply impressed I have
become with the critical importance of
the part that the church and religion must
play in making popular government what
it ought to be and in vindicating it as
the best kind of a government that an
intelli^;ent people can establish."
All this only goes to show how im-
portant it is for Christians in our day to
live their religion and to infuse the spirit
of Christ into the life of the home, the
nation and the world.
An Appeal for a New World
If we could gather on a single pile
all the great orations of the past five
years, spoketi by men of eloquent tongue,
they would reach almost to the sky.
Words are never actions until some high-
er influence is present to translate them.
Such is our impression of the few sen-
tences at hand of a message issued to the
people of Great Britain by Premier Lloyd
George. He said:
"Millio'ns of gallant young men have
fought for the new world. Hundreds
of thousands died to establish it. If
we fail to honor the promise given them
we dishonor ourselves.
"What does the new world mean?
What was the old world like? It was
a world where toil for myriads of honest
workers, men and women, purchased
^nothing better than squalor, penury,
anxiety, wretchedness ; a world scarred
by slums, disgraced by sweating, where
unemployment, through the vicissitudes
of industry, brought despair to multi-
tudes of humble homes. A world where,
side by side with want, there was
waste of the inexhaustible riches of the
earth, partly through ignorance and
want of forethought, partly through
entrenched selfishness.
"If we renew the lease of that world,
we shall betray the heroic dead. We
shall be guilty of the basest perfidy
that ever blackened a people's fame.
Nay, we shall store up retribution for
ourselves and our children."
This is the appeal of a statesman for
a new and better world. But uliless he
has in mind the power of the Gospel of
Christ to bring it to pass, his brilliant
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message will be no more than ''sounding
brass and a tinkling cymbal."
The Church at Morioka
Our Missionary, Rev. D. F. Singley, is
heart and soul in the evangehstic work
at Morioka. Through his kindness our
readers can have a view of the interior
of the church in holiday dress. Above
the cross is written, "I am the light of
the world," and up in the arch is, "Merry
Christmas." We understand Mr. Singley
has sent posters to some of our pastors
and they no doubt will place them in the
churches.
Morioka is one of the stations which
was transferred to our Mission by the
Mission of the Reformed Church in
America. Last year Dr. Sasao, of our
North Japan College, made three visits
to the encouragement of the people. The
Ladies' Society is active in the work of
the congregation and has contributed
generously to Siberian relief work.
•Interior of Morioka Church.
Why Practice Medicine in China?
A young physician, whose heart is set
on medical work in China, recently sent a
liberal c<jniribution for the work. He
knows the great need for the healing art
in China, and gave vent to his feelings
in language like this: "When I run up
against people supposed to be sane Amer-
icans who make a big howl over a tiny
cut on a baby's forehead, I feel again and
again that I would rather be treating
Chinese than sending checks to help some-
one else do the same in my place. It em-
barrasses me to dress wounds on people
that are not hurt or on people that have
enough intelligence to dress the scratches
themselves. I have gone 14 miles in the
middle of the night to tell some one how
to treat a little poison ivy blister on his
elbow; the treatment by the way I had
learned from my mother when a small
boy. I went 12 miles one night to hand
out a couple of aspirin tablets to a fellow
that couldn't go to sleep."
There are thousands of men, women
and childreli in China whose pains and
aches are just as acute as those we suffer,
but they linger, pine away, and die for the
want of a physician or nurse. Just now
there is a great call for two physicians
from our hospitals at Yochow City and
Shenchowfu. It costs to study medicine
in America but it pays to practice it in a
land like China.
Converts at Yochow
On Sunday, January 16, fifteen men,
women and children were baptized in
the Lakeside chapel. Of these, one wo-
man was the wife of a Christian teacher.
The children were those of Christian
parents connected with the work at Lake-
side.
Communion service was held on the
same day. We were pleased to find that
almost every one of the boys in the school
here has been baptized. In the college
department the boys are all Christians.
At a recent meeting of the faculty,
Rev. Edwin A. Beck was chosen to take
over the management of the day schools.
These are located in scattered districts,
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requiring a considerable time for travel.
They were under the direction of Rev.
WiUiam A. Reimert until he died a mar-
tyr's death.
The famine in North China is con-
stantly on our minds. The people of
Hunan have been asked to help, but what
can one expect from these people who
are on the verge of starvation themselves?
The political situation in Hunan is
still unsettled. The province is practi-
cally independent of the national govern-
ment. Anti-Christian propaganda is hin-
dering evangelistic work at some of the
stations, but persecutions are sometimes
permitted of God to purify.
T. E. Winter.
Lakeside, China.
A Task for Engineers
It has been said that the war was a war
of engineers ; it is just as true that the
present reconstructive effort for society,
which begins with economic foundations,
is the concern of engineers. There is
need of the fullest productivity of which
the available man-power is capable. We
are functioning far below our national
and individual capacity. William James
told us that we can always do more than
we think we can do. The war developed
in most of us hitherto latent capacities.
We must not now relax and relapse into
the old way of waste and heedlessness.
Herbert Hoover, addressing the Amer-
ican Engineering Council at Syracuse,
tells us that production is about two-thirds
of the possible total. W^e are wasting
power and materials and time through
failure to co-operate and to standardize
and to distribute systematically. The
friction of incessant misunderstandings
with resultant idleness is the cause of a
vast superfluous expense. The scientific
investigation of these matters by men of
adequate training means the saving of
millions of dollars now squandered. The
engineers are the men best fitted for "the
sane analysis of weakness and sober pro-
posal of remedy." Mr. Hoover is right
in saying that ''our engineers are in a
unique position for this service."
Volunteers for the Ministry in North
Japan College
One year ago, the students of North
Japan College who are preparing for the
ministry, together with a group of under-
graduates, who at that time volunteered
for the same high calling, formed an
organization which they called the Vol-
unteer Band of North Japan College. At
present it consists of twenty members, of
whom twelve are in the Theological
Seminary, and the others in the Middle
School and Literary Departments of the
College. In March, three of these will
graduate and begin their work, and we
hope that there will be additional mem-
bers enrolled from the lower classes.
The purposes of the organization are to
unite in a strong brotherhood those men
who have the ministry in view, to arouse
among others an interest in this calling,
and to provide occasions to present the
claims of the ministry to the student
body. During the past year, from time
to time, meetings have been held for
prayer and fellowship.
Recently, we have had inspiring talks
by two of our ''old boys," alumni of the
College, Rev. K. Kodaira, pastor of one
of the Tokyo churches, and Rev. T.
Taguchi,, pastor of the Wakamatsu
church, both of whom by their radiant
personality, the earnestness and joy that
they show in the Lord's work, and their
success in their respective fields are well
fitted to challenge the students to hear
and answer the call for more reapers.
I enclose a photograph of this Band :
four others who belong to it were unable
to be present. Interesting indeed it
would be could you look into the heart
history of these boys. One told me of
his pleasure in being able at last to study
Hebrew, for when he was a little boy
he went to Sunday School, and ever since
he was ten years old he has had a great
desire to be able to read "the language of
Moses." He comes from a Christia'n
home, and his parents are happy to have
their first-born dedicate his life to the :
gospel ministry. Another comes from a i
large family, also Christian, and the ;
father says, "I desire this boy to be a
niinister because he is the brightest of j
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my sons." But with others it is far
different, — the Christian religio:: is liela
up to scorn and contempt in their homes.
The youth is thought very toohsh who
gives up his chances of gaining wealtli,
name, power, — oh the tremendous lure
of these things in Japan today — and
enters a calling that means small pay and
laborious work, and is not held in honor
by the average Japanese.
So we must credit these boys, all oi
them, with especial grace and earnestness
of purpose and pray for them that they
may be faithful amid all temptations.
Mary K. Gkrieaud
Sendai, Japan.
Let Us Follow Their Examples
Three forces have always induced the
Frelich Protestants to give great import-
ance to the religious education of their
young people. The first is loyal faitn-
fulness to the Huguenot tradition which
was not one of emotional religion, but of
thought, of study, and of stern theology.
The second is a common national desire
for intellectual achievement, which has
always caused French educators to be
thorough in their teaching, seeking to
teach their pupils how to think things
through for themselves. The third is
the dire necessity of strengthening a
small minority. The forces of free-
thought and Catholicism are so strong in
France that a child must attain a
measure of personal faith if he is to re-
sist the influence of irreligion and super-
stition assailing him on all sides.
The Huguenots of the sixteenth century
led the way of starting Protestant schoo.U
all over the country. There the discipline
was so harsh and the teaching so dog-
matic that we wonder how sucii schools
fashioned the noble minds of tliat time.
But we must remember that the child's
real leaders were not those directly con-
nected with the Church, but the mother
who rocked the cradle to the tunes of the
Psalms ; the father who lovingly and
solemnly led in family worship ; the ven-
erable pastor who blessed the little chil-
dren l>efore he started on the road to
martyrdom. Boys and girls breathed
religion in the home until religion became
the very essence of their being. — The
Church School
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New Courses Needed in Eastview
Schools
BY REV. J. FRANK BUCHER, PRINCIPAL
THE aim of every Mission school is
to give a thorough and up-to-date
education under the influences of a
strong Christian environment. This being
the case, the faculty of every Mission
school is confronted with two problems,
first, thorough, up-to-date education, and
second, strong Christian environment.
The Eastview Schools, in common with
most Mission schools, have developed a
course carrying studies usually found in
a High School or Preparatory School
Classical course in America. To be sure,
iGreek, Latili, German, and French are
not studied. But a very thorough course
in English and the very difficult study of
the Chinese written language more than
take their places. And it may be noted
that if the Chinese Government ever
carries through the University scheme
proposed some years ago, our Middle
school must add German and French to
its course.
To carry out this course in the East-
view Schools, it has been found necessary
to arrange a rather hard schedule. Dur-
ing the Semester just closed, this schedule
ran as follows: A. M. 6:15, Calisthenics;
7:00, Breakfast; 7:50, Inspection of
Dormitory and other buildings; 8:00,
Chapel; 8:30 to 11:50, Recitation and
study; 12:00, Dinner. P. M. 1:00 to
4:20, Study and Recitation; 5:30, Sup-
per; 6:30 to 9:30, Study; 9:40, Lights
out.
There has been a strong feeling that
this academic course in itself does not
meet the needs of present day China.
For several years now The Chinese Rec-
order and the Educational Review have
contained many articles on this subject.
Your missionaries in the Eastview
Schools were glad to read these articles,
because they confirmed a conviction that
has been growing for some years. We
have felt the absolute need of changing
and broadening our work, but have also
felt quite unable to make any improve-
ments under present conditions. The
disappointment in the articles in the above
magazines came in the fact that while
they were full of negative criticism, there
was very little positive criticism. Evi-
dently the writers themselves felt the
"need but were unable to meet it. And one
and all are urging upon their Boards that
trained men be sent out to the field to
aid in solving these problems, the kind
of men who are meeting and solving these
same problems in America.
Some Suggestions for Meeting the
Need.
A number of courses are being tried
to meet the conditions that confront us
in China. Three methods have either
been tried or suggested for the Eastview
Schools.
Manual Training
Manual Training has been suggested
for schools in China, (a) to give that
training to the eyes and hands that every
pupil needs, and (b) to give poor but
deserving students an opportunity to
work their way through school. The in-
troduction of Manual training into the
schools at once confronts the Principal
with several obstacles. These will be
discussed in a later article.
Forestry and Agriculture
A crying need in this part of China
is the teaching of Forestry. This city
was formerly famous for its wood mar-
ket. The market is comparatively small
now. The hills have been denuded of
forest trees and we do not know of any-
one who is planting any. On the other-
hand, the farmers are covering the hills
with the tung oil trees, plowing the hills
frequently for their cultivation. As a
result, the soil on the hills is being
washed away by the heavy rains, and the
bare rocks will soon come to the surface.
When the writer talked over this matter
with Prof. Bailie (of Nanking Univer-
sity and Purple Mountain fame) , he was
strong in his condemnation of this short-
sighted policy of the farmers. Of course
nothing but long and careful training can
convince these farmers that they are
making a mistake. Unless something is
done by our Mission schools there is
very little hope of anything at all being
done for years to come. At the best, the
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timber outlook for China is most appal-
ling. Our Mission schools should do
everything possible to help out the situa-
tion.
In connection with Forestry work,
agricultural courses and experiments
should be conducted. The Chinese are
wonderful intensive farmers and market
gardeners. But they have much to learn
from the agricultural schools of the
West. New and better fruits and vege-
tables should be introduced. Better
methods should be taught. A few years
ago a progressive District Magistrate
started an Agricultural Experiment Col-
lege on the drill field near our compound.
He only remained here a few months and
the project fell through. But even those
few motiths showed that much could be
done.
We need not dwell upon the fact that
the Forestry and Agricultural work
give us a very great opportunity for
Christian work among the rural villages.
But to make such work worth while, we
must have a trained Missionary, one who
is competent to do it. It is to be hoped
that the Board can see its way clear to
do such work.
Normal Department
Some years ago the Mission and the
Board approved of a Normal Depart-
ment for the Eastview Schools. Owing
to the fewness of the teachers and the
lack of accommodations for students, the
Department has never been started. We
feel that this department should be
opened. Hundreds of Primary Schools
must be opetied up in this district to meet
the educational needs of the future.
Teachers must be trained for them. Here
is a great opportunity to train under
Christian influences. The obstacle to be
overcome is that we will get very few
students unless we secure Government
recognition for our schools. But if the
Department is brought up to the high
standards satisfactory to us, there is
every reason to think that Government
recognition can be secured. To conduct
this department, a worker thoroughly
trained in the latest and best pedagogical
methods is needed.
Shenchowfu, China.
The World's Sunday School
Convention
WHAT standard is one to apply in
judging of the success of such
a gathering as the Sunday School
Convention? It is — there would be
no point in denying the fact — for many
of the members a pleasant holiday. It
is also an opportunity for exchanging
views and experiences, and it is an oc-
casion on which sinking faith may be
strengthened and courage revived. As
the missionary sees it, it formed a means
of encouraging and inspiring the Japan-
ese churches by reminding them that
they form part of a great international
army. From all these points of view the
Convention must be regarded as having
ibeen successful. The sense of change
which makes a holiday visit to the East
such an unforgettable experience was
supplemented by the overflowing hos-
pitality which the Japanese nation never
fails to extend on such occasions, and the
kindness that made many Japanese ofifer
their rarely opened homes to the guests
added greatly to the pleasures of the
.visit. Of the vast stimulus provided
by the assembling from the ends of the
earth of a company of earnest workers
for all engrossing cause there is no need
to speak. The more technical benefits
accruing from exchange of experiences
and comparison of methods will be sum-
med up by more competent pens, but
there is no doubt that in its function of
mutual education the Convention was also
successful.
In visiting a non-Christian country
the organizers of the Convention were
inspired by the hope that the gathering
would conduce to the spread of the
Christian gospel in Japan. The fulfilment
or failure of this hope can only be tested
by time. Any attempt to anticipate re-
sults would be mistaken. It was at least
evident that the Japanese Christians who
were present were greatly heartened bv
the spirit and atmosphere of the gather-
ings. They are a small minority — how
very small is not alwa\ s realized — and it
is seldom that they find themselves ac-
commodated in the best building in the
capital, befriended by the leading men of
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the empire, and occupying the daily atten-
tion of the press. Moreover, it is natur-
ally difficult for a tiny minority to main-
tain its energy amid the indifference of
the mass, but when this minority finds
that it is part of a movement which em-
braces the whole sweep of Western civili-
zation its heart is uplifted and it is
encouraged in its task of "leavening the
lump." In that respect it will not be
denied that the Convention has advanced
the missionary cause in Japan.
There were many difficulties in the way
of such a gathering being held here, and
certain practical objections. Its success
was by no means a foregone conclusion.
The difficulties have all been overcome,
and in every reasonable interpretation
of the term the Convention has been suc-
cessful. It is necessary to stress this
Vv^ord ''reasonable" because critics will
no doubt be heard who will consider that
it has failed because it has not altered
the attitude of Japan towards Christian-
ity. It was not to be expected that it
would. On this point a word of caution
might be addressed to the foreign dele-
gates themselves. They have found them-
selves in an atmosphere of hospitality
and warm sympathy. They have found
earnest and able pastors inculcating
Christianity in Japan. They must not
lose sight of the fact that Japan's attitude
towards Christianity is revealed in her
response to the missionary appeal. In
the sixty years that have elapsed since the
opening of Japan less than one half of
one per cent, of the total population of
the country have embraced Christianity.
Less than half of that half per cent, be-
longs to the Protestant branches of the
Christian Church from which the Con-
vention is drawn.
Opinions differ as to the moral to be
drawn from these figures. Some hold
that they furbish sufficient evidence that
Japan's reply to Christianity is a polite
but explicit No. Others see in them an
incentive to renewed effort, to closer
study of the conditions, to unceasing con-
sideration of the best methods of ap-
proach. It is difficult to see what other
aliswer is possible to a faith which has
inscribed on its banners the missionary
mandate ''Go ye out into all the world
and preach the gospel." Sixty years is
but a moment in the life of a nation,
even when, as with Japan, it has been a
moment crowded with movement and
change. In that half century Japan has
been dazzled and engrossed with the ma-
terial miracles that the West displayed to
her eyes. There are signs enough that
many minds are conscious of a gap in her
moral acquirements. Wlien the novelty of
wealth and power beyond the dreams of
old Japan has worn off the moment may
arrive when the East will turn to the
message of its greatest teacher. In await-
ing and preparing for that time the
church has to rememher that the mis-
sionary problem is not simply that of
bringing light to a people that sit in
darkness. Japan has inherited a Buddhist
faith of which the ethical content is of
high value while it predisposes the minds
that have been saturated by its principles
to impugn the Christian philosophy of
vicarious sacrifice and atonement. The
missionary to Japan must therefore be
able to cope with his opponents intellec-
tually, and successful work in this field
demands great qualities of mind as well
as of heart. In so far as the meeting of
the Convention in Tokyo has brought
the nature and extent of the problem
home to many active leaders of the
church it can be expected to strengthen
the agencies which are laboring to bring
Japan to Christianity.
The figures that we have quoted illus-
trate another aspect of Japan's religious
life which is worth the attention of the
delegates, and that is its tolerance. For
much of the kindness that helped to make
the gathering a success the Convention is
indebted to non-Christians. They opened
their homes to the delegates ; they contri-
buted to the expenses; when fire des-
troyed the meeting place they unhesitat-
ingly sacrificed convenience and profit to
the needs of the Convention. As with
leaders so with people. Wherever they
went the visitors were received with kind-
ness and respect. It would have been im-
possible for their great-grandfathers to
conceive such a state of things to be pos-
sible among a people whose religion the
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visitors were implicitly engaged in an ef-
fort to subvert. Religious liberty may be,
as Disraeli once said, "an equivocal prin-
ciple, the unqualified application of which
seems hardly consistent to that recogni-
tion of religious truth Iby the state to
which we adhere," but it oils the wheels
of society, and the wide tolerance of
Japan helped not a little towards the suc-
cess of the Convention — The Japan
Advertiser.
How a Banker Views the Orient
Mr. Thomas W. Lamont, of the firm
of J. P. Morgan & Co., makes a strong
plea for a better understanding of Chinese
and Japanese affairs by Americans. He
sees a rich field for American trade in
the Far East, and says that co-operatioli
and tact rather than skepticism and anta-
gonism would work to the great benefit
of the United States and Japan in their
immigration difficulties. In order to
understand China one must visit not only
that country but Japan, as well. And to
know^ Japan otie must know China. He
is quoted as saying:
"The first step toward building up
your American trade in the Far East,
is to secure an adequate understanding
of those various peoples over there, their
modes of life, their habits of mind, their
ambitions and ideals.
"Gradually the European nations
have come to realize that the policy of
the warship and of 'grab' is outworn,
and that they could best serve the in-
terests of their own nationals, to say
nothing of China's, by stopping the
race for concessions and by adopting
plans of co-operation.
"It was to endeavor to complete this
new plan of co-operative effort for China
that I was called to visit the Far East
last winter. The new consortium will
be formed on the American basis of a
free and full partnership, and the results
should be of permanent advantage. It is
calculated in time to make China a fine
and stable market foi your manufac-
tures.
"The other factor lies in the develop-
ment of the Chinese people themselves.
For centuries China has been living in
the past — looking backward, not for-
ward. The sleeping giant is now rub-
bing his eyes and opening them to new
visions. There is a great growth of
national feeling now in China. It is
bound to modernize that country if we
encourage and assist it.
The Chinese have a deep confidence in
America and are looking to this country
as her guide her counselor and her friend.
One reason for this, was that America had
never sought to exploit China nor domin-
ate ally part of her territory,
Mr. Lamont said he had never im-
agined until he went there that there
could be a region calling for the prod-
ucts of American industry so strongly
as China will call within the next
twenty years.
"And don't forget, that to keep 400,-
000,000 people supplied with motion pic-
ture shows will be quite a task even for
Americans."
"As for Japan and the charge that
Japanese men of business are sharp
and untrustworthy, 'forget it.' It is
not so. The Japanese business men are
not as frank as we are. They want to
be, but don't know how. For genera-
tions they have been taught reserve.
But I want no honester person to deal
with than the Japanese business man.
As far as he alone is concerned you can
well afford to trust him and to enter
into important relations with him."
The religion of the community is really
the bulwark of business and of our in-
vestments. It means the real security for
the stocks, bonds, mortgages, deeds and
other investments which we own. The
steel boxes, the legal papers and the other
things that we look upon as so imp(irtant,
are the mere shell of the egg. The value
of our investments depends not upon
the strength of our banks, but upon the
strength of our churches.
— p.OGER W. B.\BSON.
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A Sunday In Sendai
WHEN in Japan, on account of the
Eighth Convention of the
World's Sunday School Associa-
tion, it was a particular pleasure to spend
a Sunday at Sendai. I went there for
two reasons. One was because I had
been greatly interested for a number of
years in the work of the Reformed
Church of the United States in that city.
This interest was intensified by reason
of my relationship as Superintendent to
the Department for utilizing Surplus
Materials. Through this Department
members of the Reformed Church in the
United States in the home land had been
given introductions to missionaries of
their own denomination in Sendai and
scores of packages of pictures and papers,
etc., have been forwarded, thus helping
the work in Sendai and also cementing
the bond of friendship between the home
land and the work on the foreign field.
The second reason for visiting Sendai
was to meet my seminary classmate, Rev.
Chohachiro Kajiwara, who is a Professor
in the North Japan College. Mr. Ka-
jiwara and I were together for three
years in Princeton Theological Seminary,
and became very close friends and that
relationship has been intensified during
the succeeding years. It was one of the
greatest days in the Orient to be the
guest in Mr. Kajiwara's home and to
live for the time being according to Ja-
panese custom.
With Mr. Kajiwara, I attended his
Sunday School class where he has a large
attendance of men from the city of Sen-
dai. I was permitted, through Mr. Ka-
jiwara as interpreter, to address the
class. Then I was taken by one of the
professors to the various Sunday Schools
in Sendai which were in session. We
could only spend a few minutes at each
place but it was enough t'o observe the
fine work that is beitig carried on in the
dififerent church schools in that city.
When the time of morning service ar-
rived, I joined with many in the Re-
formed Church in vSendai where a serm'on
was giveh in Japanese. In the evening
both Mr. Kajiwara and I were guests in
the home of Dr. and Mrs. D. B. Schneder,
This hospitaUty was most delightful and
I was able to learn much concerning the
great work of the Reformed Church in
Sendai. We talked about the great fire
of some months ago, and plans for the
rdbuilding were indicated.
While the time in Sendai was brief,
it was sufficient to note the large amount
of work which has been consummated by
the Reformed Church, together with the
great outreach from that mission sta-
tion.
Dr. alid Mrs. Schneder, Dr. Faust and
others from Sendai attended the Sunday
School Convention in Tokyo, and there
the acquaintances formed in Sendai were
reliewed.
The Surplus Material Department of
the World's Sunday School Association
has a method for relating any one in the
Reformed Church not only to the mis-
sion work in Sendai, but to missionary'
work of that denomination in other
countries. Por all information write to
Rev. Samuel D. Price, D. D., 216 Metro-
politan Tower, New York City. In writ-
ing you should state that you are a mem-
ber of the Reformed Church in the Uni-
ted States. You will then receive a card
of introduction to one of your mission-
aries, and you call forward to them
many things which they need, which you
have, and which can be given great use-
fulness overseas merely by the expense
of postage to send the packages. It is
impossible to spend more than 32 cents
at a time as four pounds is the limit of
weight for a package, containing pic-
tures or papers. The Bible lesson picture
rolls and small Bible lesson picture cards
are greatly desired by eveiy missionary
of the Reformed Church in the United
States.
America as an Educator of Chinese
Leaders
An illuminating article from the pen
of Julean Arnold, of Peking, appeared in
a rece'nt number of Millard's Review,
under the caption, ''What America Hos
to Ofifer the Chinese Student." We
quote in part :
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Foreign Missions
17?
"Some of the particular advantages
which America has to offer to the Chi-
nese student, ambitious to be of real
service to his country, are:
1 — 'Geographically, China and America
resemble each other to a marked degree.
In area the countries are similar. Each
a huge central alluvial plain drained by
waterways alike in character. The im-
portant problems in railways and other
communications are strikingly similar.
In agriculture, irrigation and drainage
the two countries have similar questions
to handle. In basic mineral resources,
China and America are similarly favored.
2 — Politically, the Chinese and Amer-
ican peoples possess ideals favorable to
the development of the most advanced
democratic institutions, hence have prob-
lems on public education which are
identical. China looks to the United
States for aid and inspiration in the
realization of a representative constitu-
tional government.
3 — Socially, Chinese and Americans
possess many characteristics in common.
Class and caste distinctions do not obtain
among ^ either. The mutual friendship
prevailing between the two peoples
makes for agreeable companionship.
A — The American environment en-
courages initiative and resourcefulness,
qualities demanded in the developments
of the New China and particularly in the
pioneering work to be done in the open-
ing up of China's vast unsettled fertile
areas in the north and west, regions com-
parable with the north and west in
America.
5 — America being a comparatively
newly developed country, her people are
not committed to any particular prac-
tices, but adjust their ideas and methods
to the problems in hand. In this con-
nection, loss of face is a negligible fac-
tor, for there is little hesitancy in build-
ing or doing a thing over, if by the
change, improvements can be made.
6 — The United States has beconie the
leading industrial country in the world
and organization has probably been de-
veloped and applied to a greater degree
there than elsewhere. The outstanding
need of the New China is organization
in all lines of activity, especially in the
field of modern industrial enterprise.
7 — The idea of linking collegiate
training with actual practical experience
in industrial plants and business offices
is spreading rapidly throughout the
United States, hence the country now
offers exceptional opportunities for those
who would learn to translate their aca-
demic and technical training into action.
8 — Of particular significance to Chi-
nese students who would acquire a
knowledge of technical and mechanical
methods is the fact that in the United
States but few restrictions operate
against the securing of information along
these lines, and but little restraint is
placed upon those who would study
American institutions and establishments
at first hand.
9 — Because of the very democratic
nature of American society, no stigma
attaches to students of all classes en-
gaging in manual labor as part of their
education. Sons of millionaires mix
with sons of laborers in the work shops,
on the farms, in the mines, in offices, and
in hospitals, in supplementing their
academic and technical courses in col-
legiate institutions. China of the essay
must give way to China of action alid
the student of New China needs to learn
to use his hands and to respect labor.
10 — To the Chinese student, next after
his own language, no other language is
as valuable as is English which has be-
come recognized as the language of com-
merce. Furthermore, through English
literature, the student of the New China
is able to open a treasure house in ma-
terials, methods and ideas,which is prob-
ably greater and richer in its significance
to the present day needs of his country
than that of any other language.
11 — The Chinese women students will
find America the richest field for their
supplemental training, because of the
very advanced position of women, the
facilities accorded women in all lines of
acti\'ity and the freedom accorded
women in taking advantage of the op-
portunities open to them. The China of
the twentieth century will be in a large
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way what the women of the country
make it and no country^ possesses women
of higher potential qualities than does
China."
I wonder whether you have heard of
the death of Li Fiih Seng, one of our
graduate nurses. He was a boy Dr.
Adams was supporting in Lakes' de
School (Huping College), and decided
to have him come in the hospital to take
the training for a nurse. He was our
brightest and best and I feel that he has
left a corner w^hich I must help fill.
Miss Mary E. Myers.
Book Reviews
{Concluded from Page 166)
cusation is that the Jews are the cause of the
present world unrest. It is no wonder that
Mr. Wolf confesses to a feeling of shame at
having to write this pamphlet at all. Has not
the time come when men. should cease to cast
aspersions upon races, and rather cultivate the
spirit of brotherly neighborliness ?
"We have started the canvass for the
Outlook of AIissions and have thus far
secured 50 subscribers in the Friedens'
congregation of the Friedensville Charge,
Tohickon Classis. The reason this can-
vass was begun ahead of time is due to
another canvass going on — the two not
conflicting in the least and both can be
well done at the same time. The Out-
look OF Missions appeals strongly to the
people. I am sure it will do much good."
Rev. J. G. Dubbs.
Bethlehem, Pa.
American River Boats in China
The American flag will be flying on
vessels the whole length of the navigable
waters of the Yangtze River this year,
with the inauguration of the new Amer-
ican steamship service from Shanghai
to the Upper Yangtze gorges. The Rob-
ert Dollar Steamship Company have
started a new line of steamers which will
travel betw^een Shanghai and Hankow.
— Millard's Review.
NiBANCHo Church and Theological Seminary, Sendai, Japan.
Woman s Missionary Society
EDITOR: Mrs. EdWTN W. LeNTZ, 811 Mahkkt Sthekt, Bakoob. Pa.
EDITORIAL
Comrades in Anxiety
AMONG the anxieties produced by
the present-day spirit of indiffer-
ence is the anxiety over the sub-
scription Hsts of our missionary maga-
zine?. People who understand the rela-
tion between information and efficiency
deplore the laxity of interest in many
Church members toward missionary mag-
azines.
As a result of the high cost of pro-
duction, several of the best magazines
have disappeared from our files, notably
the long established children's magazine,
Over Land and Sea. If the increase in
the cost of production would be met by a
relatively enlarged circulation, it would
not be so bad, but that has not been the
-case with any of the missionary maga-
zines. For instance. The Missionary Re-
■view of the World must be helped imme-
diately or it will be discontinued, and we
cannot let such a thing happen.
From an editorial in The Woman's
Home Missions (Methodist Episcopal)
we note that June 5 is to be "Publicity
Day" for periodicals in the Methodist
Church. The fortieth anniversary of the
Woman's Home Missionary Society last
year brousfht in 33,617 new subscriptions,
but there were )=o manv failures to ^-enew
that the actual loss for the fiscal year
was 11,500.
We might mention a number of mis-
sionary magazines which earned a surplus
each year until two years ago. Since that
time they have had to carry large deficits.
Comrades in anxiety — editors and pub-
lishers of missionary magazines !
We have noted our neighbors' troubles
as a background to our own. Let us
remember these things when we plan for
Outlook of Missions Week, May 1 — 7 ;
goal. The Outlook of Missions in
every family.
We are fortunate to have secured the
article "Under Old Brooklyn Bridge," by
Miss Theodora Land, for use in con-
nection with the fourth chapter of "The
Church and the Community." Miss
Land's intimate knowledge of home con-
ditions among the foreigners of Lower
New York makes a valuable contribution
to the program material for the June
meeting. The subject is "Homes and
Housing," and her article supplies excel-
lent material for the papers on "What
Does Home Mean to the Immigrant?"
Last summer the experiment of pro-
viding Christian Social Service for the
women and children who labor as mi-
grant workers in the berry patches and
vegetable farms of New Jersey, Dela-
ware and Maryland was tried with suc-
cess.
More than 22,000 migrants are re-
quired to harvest the fruit and cannery
crops of the Eastern states, and until
last summer few of us thought of them
or inquired into the conditions under
which they live during the harvesting of
the crops. Bunkhouses, barns without
partitions, and shacks shelter men, wo-
men, children, young people and adults,
married and unmarried alike.
That conditions can be improved when
Christian people take notice was demon-
strated in the camps where the workers
were located.
Miss Lila Bell Acheson was the Exe-
cutive Supervisor of the work among this
group. A portion of the leaflet "Harvest-
ing Souls in Berry Patches," by Miss
Acheson. published by the Woman's
Board of Home Missions of the Pres-
byterian Church, appears in this issue.
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The Institutes of 1920
DUCATION and Inspiration' —
iLi how shall it be measured !
The theme for our recent
series of institutes was Education and
Inspiration. An excellent subject, surely,
but intangible, aloof, visionary, when at-
tempt be made to report it with precision.
It would seem folly to try to measure in-
spiration in numbers. Tho'se who re-
ported the institutes, in many cases must
have felt that the theme was incompa-
tible with figures, and in writing a glow-
ing report of the meetings omitted men-
tion of anything so definite as numbers.
It had been the purpose of the Edu-
cational Commission to give a final re-
port, as exact as possible, of the insti-
tutes, but this kind has been found not
to be feasible. The aim of the institutes
of 1919 was quite different. Then we
had Service Cards, and an Every Mem-
ber Canvass for members — for service —
for subscriptions to the Outlook of
Missions. It was a comparatively sim-
ple matter to compile the data, giving
exact number of new members, number
of those willing to give ^service, as well
as subscriptions to the Outlook of Mis-
sions. Because of this splendid definite-
ness of results, and the large number of
women newly enlisted in the service of
the W. M. S. who were manifestly not
familiar with the service required of
them, nor the needs of those whom they
would serve, the theme of Education and
Inspiration for the 1920 institutes, fol-
lowed as a natural sequence.
It means much to have a large number
of women in our missionary organiza-
tions, but it means infinitely more if these
women know why, and for what they are
working, and that this knowledge be
topped by an inspiration that can only
come from an intelligent desire to assist
in making the world wholesome and
sweet with a savor of Christ-likeness in
the lives of its people.
The following quotations from reports
of institutes give assurance that this
ideal prevailed in many Gassical Socie-
ties. "We, as a Classical, as well as the
local societies have been inspired and
much benefited by what we heard at the
Institute." Or the closing words of an-
other report — "Thus ended one of the
most successful and inspiring meetings
that has ever been held in our Classis."
A paragraph from another "For those
who were present, we must say that the
pleasure, the inspiration, the larger vision
of the work given them by such a meet-
ing, is too great to be estimated by mere
mortal in mere words. Only God knows,
and the future alone will reveal to us,
the extent to which such a meeting
changes the hearts and lives of those who
were present." These are but several
of many expressions of the helpfulness
of the institutes.
The Woman^s Missionary Society of
General Synod prepared the program
through its Educational Commission and
arranged for speakers and the literature
necessary for carrying out the work.
Presidents of Synodical Societies ar-
ranged for the dates of meetings in their
synods and boosted the preparatory
work. Each of the Classical organiza-
tions had it in its power to make of the
institute a success or a failure, according
to the preparation made for the meeting.
In many Classes this work had been
carefully and prayerfully done, and a
large gathering of women and an in-
spiring meeting resulted. In a few
cases, the labor given was -small, and
the returns equally small — the same old
story of the sowing and the reaping.
Some thousands of the women of the
church heard the message from the
foreign field, from those splendid mis-
sionaries— Mis's Lindsey, Mrs. Beam,
Mrs. Karl Beck and Paul Gerhard. The
same women listened to the teaching of
promi'nent workers of the W. M. S.
who developed for them "Points of
Progress" and begged for a more ex-
tended use of mission study books and
literature.
In addition to this Miss Carrie Kersch-
ner visited and addressed about fifty
institutes, some classical, some local, in
the synods of the Southwest, the North-
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181
west and the Interior, meeting approx-
imately 2,000 women.
The work in unorganized territory
resulted in 18 new organizations. But
even here, these numbers are more than
likely doubled ere this — for the institutes
were really the beginning rather than
the end of the campaign in unorganized
territory.
A close study of your own classical or
local society will, in the future, reveal
the measure of the work accomplished
by the institutes of 1919 and 1920 and
their educational and inspirational value.
Elizabeth Hendricks.
Acting Chairman
Educational Commission.
Institute Notes
East Susquehanna Classical Society
reported the largest number of new
organizations — three. These new so-
cieties will in a short iime give valuable
assistance to the parent organization.
* * ♦
East Pennsylvania Classical Society,
as at the i^nstitute of 1919, served a
dainty lunch, in a happy and well ap-
pointed style. This gracious hospitality
brought the largest attendance of any
institute that has been reported. Why
not make our missionary gatherings
social affairs? We do it willingly for
our clubs.
* ♦ ♦
Have you heard about the Classical
Institute of Lancaster Classical Society
at Stoutsville, Ohio? Or, about the
ten inches of snow, or the best dinner
you ever sat down to, or the beautiful
hospitality of the Stoutsville women?
Mrs. W. R. Harris of Morgantown, W.
Virginia, will gladly give information
on ths 'subject.
* ♦ *
The first missionary speaker in this
church for ten years — reads one institute
report.
Prayer Calendar for May
THE prayer for May was written by
Mrs. M. E. Whitmore, for the
past five years missionary in Para-
guay, South America.
Thirty-one years ago in May, Mrs.
Whitmore was elected the second Presi-
dent of the Woman's Missionary So-
ciety of General Synod, at Lebanon, Pa.
From the "Historical Sketch," written by
Mrs. E. S. Yockey, the first President,
we find that Mrs. Whitmore had the
honor of delivering an address at the
open meeting on the floor of General
Synod.
She wais the first editor of the
Woman's Journal, the official organ of
the Woman's Missionary Society, from
1891 until 1908, when it was consolidated
with the Outlook of Missions.
In the brief records of the early years
of the organization, we see 'Steadlastne^Vi
of purpose and a determination ur-^n^Ke-
able in the women who had to clear
away the obstacles for our present work.
We are not remembering these women
in the measure which their work de-
serves. The Prayer Calendar bridges the
years and brings us face to face with
those who wrought that foundations
might be laid for co-operation among
Christan women to send the Gospel unto
the uttermost parts of the earth.
Hurrah for Milwaukee!
The above exclamation was used in
the penmanship lessons of all the classes
in the Bowling Green Academy, one day
recently, and this was the reason. The
Girl's Dormitory of the Academy was
supplied with twenty-two shades at a
cost of $60, by the two Woman's Mis-
sionary Societies and the Young Wo-
man's Missionary Auxiliary of the First
Reformed Church of Milwaukee, Rev.
H. C. Nott, D. D., pastor.
United prayer and consecrated effort will
be great aids toward making Outlook of
Missions Week, May 1-7, successful.
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Under Old Brooklyn Bridge
theodorX land
(This article is to be used with the
June program in connection with the
four minute talk on ''The Home — What
Does It Meanf")
< <X/ OU can say what you want about
1 God and a life hereafter. I
think we get all that's coming
to us right here. The rich have Heaven,
the middle class have purgatory, and the
rest of us have Hell !"
This was the life-philosophy which
Mrs. Marino, one of the finest Italian
mothers that I know, had worked out
when she summed up what life really
meant to her. Of course, she didn't al-
ways talk in such a hopeless way,but when
I thought of how little there really was
to make her glad she was living, I won-
^x-^^rcidiil I should not have reached the
I'Lsame conclusion. Perhaps when you
fiix?'«h this article, you will wonder, too.
As social worker for a Charity Organi-
zation in Brooklyn, I should like to take
you with me through the district at the
foot of the old Brooklyn Bridge, for to
me there is no more fascinating section
in the whole city than this. A part of
the district includes Columbia Heights,
where the old aristocracy, the fine old
famihes of wealth who support to so
large an extent our work, live in their
dignified brown-stone mansions. The fa-
mous Plymouth Church, where Henry
Ward Beecher preached, and where Hillis
is now the minister, is here, too, as are
the chief administrative buildings of the
city.
Scarcely ten minutes' walk from the
Beecher Church brings us into one of the
worst slum sections of the city. Cheap
lodging houses for men (you can spend
the night there for a quarter — why piy
six dollars at the Vanderbilt?) flourish
here, and the pool-rooms and the 'saloons
of the district, for they have not yet, if
one can judge from results, turned their
bar-rooms into soda fountains. There
are numerous old, dilapidated houses,
formerly the respectable homes of the
better class, which have degenerated into
furnished-room houses, over-crowded
and often of questionable character.
Sometimes a family of three or four per-
sons occupies one room. We know as
soon as a woman tells us that she has
always lived in furnished rooms that the
history of that family is one of shiftless-
ness and probably intemperance.
It is near the arches of the old bridge
that many of the country's largest fac-
tories are found. They rise up, towering
far above the three-story houses which
have remained standing between them,
shutting off a part of iQod's sunshine,
which is the rightful heritage of every
home. Most of the houses here have
from three to six families in them, but
there are a number of large tenements
where many more families are housed.
I am thinking particularly of a large rear
tenement separated from the eight family
tenement in front of a court about fifty
to one hundred feet. There must be
twenty families whose children have no'
other place to play but this court or
the street. Because of the scarcity of
houses, many violations of tenement
house laws occur, and we are helpless
until general conditions everywhere
change.
On fine, clear days we can catch
glimpses of the blue East River, and
sometimes the fresh breeze from the bay
blows over the sordid ugliness of it ail
like a cleansing balm from Heaven. But
the breeze does not always blow — and
then one's heart goes out in pity for the
little children who scarcely know what
a shade tree looks Hke.
You will be interested to know that
within a radius of less than two miles
there are to be found thirteen national-
ities. As we walk down Pearl street I
want you to notice the little girl with
the straight, thick black hair, and the
slightly slanting eyes. Her mother is
Irish, but her father was a Filipino. The
Filipinoes are making very good hus-
bands, at least all their widows tell us
so. See that little blond fellow with the
rosy cheeks ! His mother and father came
from Russian Poland. And these hand-
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some, black-eyed young girls ! They are
from Porto Rico, and form one of our
most interesting colonies. A little fur-
ther to the South we find a large Syrian
colony. There is a sprinkling of Irish,
Scotch, Swedes, Germans and Americans,
but when the latter come to us for help,
we usually discover that they are simply
"poor white trash," who because of shift-
lessliess or drinking find themselves be-
low normal. Occasionally a really fine
family has been reduced through sick-
ness or other adverse circumstances to
ask aid of us, but our main work is with
the unadjusted immigrant. Of course the
Italian "is always with us."
CAUSES WHICH LEAD TO REQUESTS FOR
ASSISTANCE
Thi'S brings me to discuss with you the
causes which occasion a family to ask
assistance. Although we spent about two
thousand dollars last year in this district,
the need for financial assistance, in my
opinion, is often only the superficial need
— the cause is often more effectively
cured by other means than by the giving
of alms.
Sickness is the chief reason for a fam-
ily being unable to "carry on" normally.
There w^as the family from Porto Rico,
consisting of six children and father and
mother, living in four small rooms. Mr.
M. was the first to go to the hospital,
where he had a tubercular kidney re-
moved. It was during last winter's "flu"
epidemic, and one dav while he was still
in the hospital a district nurse called up
to say that the mother, who was
pregnant, had contracted influenyq. and
that two children were also sick. Of
course Porto Ricans are not accustomed
to our rigorous winters, and there was
insufficient bedding. The nurse worked
with us in eettinsr both mother and chil-
dren to the hospital in ambulances, and
then since there was no one but a friend,
with all the svmptoms of flu, to care for
the rest of the family, we placed them
all, except the oldest boy who was work-
ins:, into Homes. This boy stayed with
friends, but before two weeks had passed
he had broken his arm in a fall. This
m
was the "luck" which this family had
found in its first winter in the States.
They were finally persuaded to return
to Porto Rico, where there is no need for
blankets or stoves, and latest reports
show them to be doing very well at
home.
Domestic difficulties form a large part
of our problems. When a man has been
drinking and abusing his wife, the first
plan of the social worker is to have a
confidential talk with the erring spouse,
learning his side of the story (and there's
usually a pretty big side, too, for slovenly
wives and poor housekeeping would
"drive some of us to drink") and then
through threats of court action and an
appeal to his better self, or in behalf of
the children, he is sometimes made to
see the error of his ways. More often,
as in the cases of desertion, we urge the
woman to go to court, as this is the only
way the delinquent husband can be forced
to assume his responsibility.
When Mr. F. proposed moving his
sick wife and children to Montreal from
Quebec, his wife demurred and he con-
sented to send her to his mother in the
States. For a while he sent money reg-
ularly and then suddenly the payments
ceased, for no apparent reason, for Mrs,
F. learned that he was still living and
working. She and his mother bravely
undertook to provide for the four little
ones by going out to work, but since the
baby could not be left alone, they applied
for the use of our nursery. Of course
we went to the bottom of the matter and
found the real cause of the trouble. Then
followed a long, often seemingly hope-
less search for the man. At last we lo-
cated him through his firm, and when he
refused to co-operate in sending money
for the children, we attempted to have
him brought back for punishment. Since
he was not a citizen, and there was no
clause in the treaty covering such a case,
nothing could be done legally. We
dogged him, through the societies like
ours, from state to state, through Canada,
and finally located him in \\incouver,
where we found he had married ag^in
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and was living comfortably. At last he
was prevailed upon to do his duty by his
family here, and the first check came
last month.
Many families and individual's find it
impossible to cope with their environ-
ment because of mental difficulties. Fan-
ny Cramer was such an one. She came
in, late one afternoon, in an hysterical
state, saying she was homeless and with-
out funds. Her father was in New Jer-
sey, and she had no friends in the city.
We sent her for the night to a home for
transients and the next day had her ex-
amined at the mental clinic, where her
mentality was found to be seven years
(she was 28 years old). We were ad-
vised to try her in a quiet place under
good people, (since her father could not
care for her) and were fortunate in find-
ing a fine, motherly soul in the suburbs
who took Fanny and tried ever so hard
to teach her to work. But Fanny had
her own ideas and could not be reasoned
with. When her bad moods came, she
simply refused to move from her room,
and ordered every one to keep away from
her. It was found finally that the only
place for Fanny was in an institution.
We are particularly concerned about
our feeble-minded girls, for they are of-
ten rather pretty and are absolutely at the
mercy of unscrupulous men. We usually
make every effort possible to have them
placed in institutions, but this is often
difficult to do, especially when we can-
not gain the consent of the family, who
are too ignorant to realize the danger of
having these girls and boys at large.
Our most hopeless situations are those
where the mother of the family is feeble-
minded, and continues to have child after
child, as feebleminded as she is herself.
We are often called into a family where
we find the real reason for its plight
comes from a moral problem. There are
the Levinskies. The ambulance surgeon
who had been isummoned to take Mr. L.
to the observation ward because he was
mentally unbalanced, asked that we visit,
because the family seemed to be utterly
destitute. My first visit seemed to bear
out his observation, and since it was in
the evening and the children complained
of not having any food, I left a dollar.
The mother kissed my hand and wept,
saying she had never before asked for
aid. But the next morning I found by a
little investigation, this same mother was
not only a heavy drinker, but that a num-
ber of the men of the neighborhood came
down to drink with her (thi's, in spite
of the prohibition law). Clearly we could
not waste our money on a family like
this, and yet we dared not let the thin,
emaciated little ones starve. We imme-
diately got in touch with the Children's
Society and had the little ones taken
away from their mother. Institutions
may be justly condemned for pany rea-
sons, but at least there is no mstitution
where the children will see and hear what
they have seen and heard in their own
homes. We in our comfortable Christian
homes can scarcely comprehend what a
mockery these words can be, "Be it ever
so humble, there's no place like home,"
until we actually get into some of these
vile places which have no right to that
sacred name.
A rather amusing situation grew out
of one of our moral problems. Mrs.
De Nicola is a handsome, intelligent
young Italian widow with four ismall chil-
dren. She came to us for assistance, and
when we began to make inquiries about
her past, we discovered that last summer
she had eloped with a married man, and -
under pressure had been forced to return
to her home. Of course she denied all
this when we confronted her with it, and
professed her profound love for her chil-
dren, and her absolute innocence. The
next morning a stalwart Italian was
awaiting me at the office.
"Who are you? I've never seen you
before," I said.
"Oh, Mrs. De Nicola senda me. I
wanta marry her, an' she tella me come
up and talka to you," he replied.
In order to clear up her rather ques-
tionable reputation, she had hit upon the
idea of marrying this Tony, and had evi-
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dently sent him up to be "passed by the
board of censors."
Our biggest problem just now is the
unemployment problem. And sometimes
we are almost driven to distraction at
the enormity of the problem. When
independent, intelligent people come to
us saying "we don't want charity, we
want a job, wej'll do anything,"the tragedy
of the situation is brought home to us
very vividly. Recently there seems to
be a sHght change for the better, and the
more inteUigent are getting at least part
time work. But our poor, handicapped
people, those who don't know the langu-
age, or who are physically disabled and
were only tolerated in the industrial
mechanism of the past few years because
of the abundance of work, are now fall-
ing by the wayside, and these are the
ones who come in great numbers to us.
We are hopeful that the spring will bring
a great change in the situation.
THE REWARDS OF ORGANIZED CHARITY
I have told you of some of the work
of a social worker in a society for organ-
ized charity. Can it be that you are
asking yourself wdiether the money, the
time, the energy, physical and mental,
spent on the foreigner is worth wdiile I
Sometimes, oh, just for the briefest pos-
sible time, after I've had an especially
heavy day's work, that question comes to
me. But then there rises before my
mind a vision of the ''great cloud of wit-
nesses" who gladly testify that America
has become the fulfilment of their dreams
because the social worker came into their
lives just when all their dreams seemed
shattered.
Then, too, the social worker is endea-
voring to throw her whole effort into
benefiting: the conv'U'^'tx- ps a '- hnle
Her information and observation should
be a growing source of fact and theory
on which new laws for the betterment
of the community can be based. \\'ith
her trained mind and lari^e fund of ex-
perience, she should be a valuable asset
to any organization which aims to bene-
fit society.
It is a far crv from the old idea of
charity, with its emphasis on doing
good to benefit one's own soul to
the view of <seeking to do good
to benefit another, in the best way for
the other. The old method gave alms in-
discriminately, and created beggars; the
new method seeks to find the cause of
dependency, and by finding it, to make
die recipient independent. The emphasis
is on service rather than on the giving
of money. If therefore you are tempted to
criticise your charity organization as be-
ing cold and heartless and scientific, just
go down to its ofiice and let them tell you
a little of their work.
I am always anxious to interest young
girls, especially college graduates, in this
new field, for I believe it is the coming
profession for young women. The work
is hard and many girls are not fitted for
it, physically or temperamentally, but to
those who are anxious for a life full of
varied experience and with a re'd chal-
lenge for service, it has its great rewards.
In the words of our former President
Wilson, I say to such an one "I summon
you to comradeship."
Harvesting Souls in Berry Patches
THE berry season is in full swing, and
the crowded little shacks are all
abustle of life by five in the morn-
ing. The family have a scanty, hurried
breakfast and the older members are off
to the hot fields to fill the crates that
we look for in the markets the following
morning. As the sun climbs higher and
higher in the heavens, the heat seems al-
most unbearable, and the children, who
have followed the parents up and down
the monotonous rows of berries, seek the
shade of the surrounding buildings and
often fall asleeji there. The noon hour
comes and there is neither time or en-
ergy to cook a substantial meal, so a loaf
of bread and some coarse molasses is a
substitute. The afternoon wears on, and
the little children — boys and girls from
the age of a few months to ten or twelve
years, with no supervision and no one
even knowing where they are — amuse
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themselves as best they know how until
dark. x
If this condition only lasted for the
few weeks of the berry season, it could
possibly be counteracted by the influences
of the rest of the year. But this is just
one round in the cycle of the year, for
when the berry season closes, the veget-
ables are ready, then the general migra-
tion for these foreign people is to the
oyster beds and canneries, where a simi-
lar, or in many cases, worse condition
arises. No schooling, no constructive
play, no ideals for future citizenship,
and no standards of law and order. The
influences of the home, the church and
the school, and a moral community life
absolutely lacking! What kind of citi-
zens do you expect them to become?
Contrast this with the following situa-
tion which was brought about by the ex-
penditure of a little time, a little money,
and a small group of interested women
in one of these truck growing centers.
Marie and Donotello had been waiting
almost two hours at the back door of the
lovely old home where we had spent the
night. It was really only eight o'clock
in the morning, but berry pickers rise
with the sun, and the little "kiddies" had
no intention of missing anything. The
new school that was going to open in
two days had been talked of very gener-
ally, and a visit of the workers to the
surrounding shacks had interested chil-
dren and parents personally in the new
project. So we packed the children in a
big car, picked up a new group at each
farm, and finally landed at the very at-
tractive little school-house. Here win-
dow-boxes, tiny, bright colored tables and
chairs — just the right height for their
stalky little legs to reach the floor — cur-
tains with nursery rhymes pictured on
them, and a general air of more interest-
ing things to come, sent each child cau-
tiously exploring the surroundings. In
the wonderful grove nearby a sand pile
was first discovered ; a swing and slide
appeared as if by magic ; noon-time
brought forth a delightful little dining-
room, up two tiny steps and you were un-
der such a gay awning, there was hot
soup in dear little bowls, big pitchers of
milk and the best bread and butter you
had ever eaten. Unless you, too, have
worked hard all morning building houses
for pasteboard cows and cloth sheep and
horses, or chasing big yellow butterflies,
you really can't know just how hungry
one can get.
Before the meal w^as over, a number
of little heads were nodding, so the ham-
mocks and rugs were soon all in use. At
the end of the hour, most of the children
were ready for supervised, consti*uctive
play, but the hot lunch, the unusual acti-
vity of mind and body and the soothing
effect of wind-rocked cradle, were too
much for some of these little neglected
youngsters, and they slept on until five
o'clock, when the car came to take them
back to what they call their homes.
The older children had begun their
school work that morning, the younger
group had been initiate-d into kindergar-
ten, and the babies had their first taste
of a day-nursery. Real play is an un-
known factor in their lives and Bible
stories have all the thrills of the first
telling. Saturday afternoons and Sun-
days have wonderful possibilities of work
among the mothers and fathers, and
the background of woods and fields,
trees alid birds is in sharp contrast
to the crowded districts in which
we find this group of foreign people liv-
ing in our cities, emphasizing again this
wonderful possibility for making real,
lasting impressions for good in their
lives.
* * *
The Women's Boards of Home Mis-
sions of different Protestant denomina-
tions helped to finance this work last
summer, and the group of growers or
canners in each community where we
worked, co-operated not only with their
influence an»d interest, but with financial
support of the work.
(From a leaflet by Miss Lila Bell
Acheson, published by the Woman's
Board of Home Missions of the Pres-
byterian Church, U. S. A.)
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Literature Chat
Cabrtb M. Kebschnkb
Literature Chat
FORTY-FOUR, out of a possible
forty-six Classical Presidents an-
swered the "Call to Prayer," sent
from the Executive Office. We have
received many letters in testimony of a
blessed season of prayer enjoyed by the
local societies which participated in the
"Day of Prayer" service. We trust that
next year better arrangements for pro-
gram may be made so that all may be
supplied.
(JUNE meeting)
Daily Vacation Bible School work is
an outlet for practical missionary work
in your own church. Have all plans
been perfected for this kind of a school
in YOUR community? Literature sup-
plies can be secured from the Interna-
tional Daily Vacation Bible School As-
sociation, 90 Bible House, New York
City. The Publication and Sunday School
Board will also gladly furnish informa-
tion oil organization and supplies.
Make your June meetng a real "folk-
sy" one. Remember the special season of
Intercession mentioned on the program
on "Jesus in the Home." Pray for the
mothers and daughters in their special
capacity of home-making. Invite all
mothers, especially the young mothers,
to attend your June meeting . Would you
enjoy a union meeting with the girls of
the Auxiliary for this month ? Emphasize
the possibilities of the happy home within
reach of every one who does her share
towards making it so.
Good housing conditions tend towards
good citizenship. What relation has the
church towards the housing problem?
Practical measures your particular
study class can follow: A model cottage
in the foreign settlement in your town
where housekeeping can be taught to the
"New Americans" ; supervise a "Home
Maker's Club." "Missions is doing some-
thing for somebod}- else."
June Program Outline.
Chapter 4. — Homes and Housing.
Period of Intercession — Jesus in the
Home.
Scripture — John 1-12.
Introduction — The Place of the Home
in the Development of Social Life. The
Weakness of the Modern Home.
Four Four-Minute Talks. The Home
— What does it mean?
(1.) To the immigrant from South-
ern ]Cur()i)e
(2.) To the Immigrant from the
Orient?*
(3.) To the Reds?*
(4.) To the American Christian?
(Page 91-92.)
Paper — Training Home Makers.
(Pages 93-97.)
Parental Responsibility.
"Home Makers" Clubs.
Normal Associations of Young Wo-
man and Men.
Paper — Saved for the Kingdom. How?
(Page 97-113.)
(a) Young Men and Women who
migrate to the City.
(b) Rural Youth without Oppor-
tunity or Development.
Talk — The Relation between Good
Homes and Good Housing. Pages 108-
113.)
Prayer in Unison from the Prayer
Calendar.
An Appeal — How shall the Church
function in the program of Home Mak-
ing? (Page 115, line 15 to end of para-
graph.)
* — Article, April, 1921, Outlook of
Missions.
July Program. (Chapter V)
"Complex Community Situations."
Scripture Romans 12, followed by the
Lord's Prayer. "Lord speak to me that
I may speak," to be sung by a selected
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^roup. (Taken froqi the Missionary
Hymnal). Address: What is the Church?
(10 minutes) 1. Can the Present Or-
ganization meet the demand to solve
Community Problems? 2. Scrutiny of
our own Local Church. Present Com-
parison : Denominational Program in
Conflict with Community Service. (Page
119-120). The Program of the Church
Adjusted to the Community. (IHustrate
from the ''Concrete Situations" in Text-
book). ''A \'acation Travelogue." (Fold-
er in Program Packet). Sung by the
Vacation Bible School children. Prayer
in Unison from the Prayer Calendar.
August Program
Chapter V^I — Community Leadership.
Scripture: Isaiah 62:1-4. Psalm 19:7-
14.
Prayer. Statement by the Leader : In
the chapter the church is challenged to
prepare herself for leadership; she is to
apply the gospel of good-will to the
sick things of the community. ''The
Church is for service as well as for ser-
vices."
Paper: The Gospel of Good- Will. 10
min. (Page 147-155) Uphold the Public
Schools. (That all people, without dis-
tinction, shall have access to the same
body of knowledge). Provide schools
where the State does not provide them.
(Home Missions schools are established
in the U. S., Alaska, Hawaii, West In-
dies.) Protect schools from being made
channels of malicious propaganda.
Talk : Citizenship. Classes under
church leadership. 3 min. (Page 158.)
Paper : The Protestant Church, a Pre-
server of True Democracv. 5 min.
(Pages 155-168).
Reading — Obookiah. (June, 1921,
Outlook of Missions) Prayer from
Prayer Calendar.
The Pageant, "The House of Brother-
hood," by Mrs. Edward F. Evemeyer,
should be presented as a climax to the
study of 'The Church and ithe Com-
munity." Costumes can be rented from
the Mission Study Department, Room
701, 15th and Race Streets, Philadelphia,
Penna.
"The Magic Thank Offering Box" has
been reprinted at the old price of 12 cts.
per copy, $1.25 per dozen. Those who
were disappointed last year might do
well to order early this year.
A "Fher" from the Central Committee
on the United Study of Foreign Mis-
sions announces the following books for
1921-22. Senior Book, "The Kingdom
and the Nations," by Eric M. North,
Ph. D. Dr. North gives vivid ghmpses
of conditions in all the Eastern countries
today — political, social, religious. It is
a book which will compel thought, pray-
er, and action, and should be used in open
forum as well as studied in women's
societies. The chapter headings are as
follows : "Japan and Korea ; China ; India
and Islam ; Africa and Latin America ;
What the World Needs ; What is required
of us." Paper covers, 50 cents post-
paid; cloth covers, 75 cents postpaid.
Not yet ready for distribution. Due an-
nouncement later.
The Junior Book: "A Noble Army,"
for boys and girls twelve years of age and
beyond. For very young children they
especially recommend "Our Whole Fam-
ily," by Mrs. Billings, and "Missionary
Helps for Junior Leaders," by Misses
Applegarth and Prescott. Paper covers
of the Junior book are 40 cents postpaid ;
cloth covers, 65 cents postpaid.
The Home Mission Theme for 1921-
22 is "Facing Our Unfinished Task."
The Senior Book, "From Survey to Ser-
vice," is written by Dr. H. Paul Douglass,
the Intermediate Book. "Plaving Square
with Tomorrow," by Fred Eastman, Di-
rector of Educational Work of the Board
of Home Missions, Presbyterian Church,
the Junior Book "Stay-at-Home Jour-
neys," by Agnes Wilson Osborne.
Copies of the above books can this
year be secured at Literature Depositor-
ies, Mrs. C. A. Krout, 240 South Wash-
ington Street, Tiffin, Ohio , and Miss
Carrie M. Kerschner, Room 311, 15th
and Race Sts, Phila. These books may be
ordered and will be delivered as soon as
in print.
Notice— Miss S. M. Wolford, 23 E.
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Chestnut Street, Norristovvn, Penna., has
a number of used copies of the following
Mission Study books which will be
passed on to "worthy people unable to
buy them" — Christian Americanization,
Crusade of Compassion, and The Bible
and Missions. Write to Miss Wolford.
A February Organization Trip
CARRIE M. KERSCIINER
THE evening of February 8th was
delightfully spent with the good
women of Bethany Church, York,
Penna. The Woman's Missionary Society
entertained the girls of the Auxiliary
which had been struggling for a number
of months with five members. Miss Fore-
man is the capable leader of this Auxili-
ary and had prepared a program in which
there was no dull moment. An address
on the Auxiliary work and the motto with
its relation to the cause of missions was
delivered. Games were played, refresh-
ments served and before we separated
for the night eighteen more girls signified
their intention to become members of the
Auxiliary.
St. Mary's, Ohio, was the next objec-
tive point. Rev. Rupnow said, "You are
fairly blowing into town," for a severe
snowstorm was raging as the train pulled
into the station. The weather did not
prevent these eager people from attend-
ing a most impressive Lenten service and
the next day a Woman's Missionary So-
ciety of one hundred members was or-
ganized, with Mrs. W. F. Brodbreck,
President. The same evening an Auxili-
ary of thirty-five members was organized.
These people are enthusiastic missionary
workers and we are looking for an in-
creased number of members in each of
these two societies.
Foreign Mission Day was spent with
Rev. A. T. Wright, D. D., at Columbiana,
Ohio, where an address was delivered
in Sunday School and another one at the
regular morliing service. In the evening
service the work of the women both at
home, in China and Japan was presented
in the church which Rev. Dr. Mayer
serves at Youngstown, Ohio. The Mis-
sionary Society of this church has de-
cided to become affiliated with Erie Clas-
sical Society this coming spring.
Four days were spent at Rochester, N.
Y., among the good people there in Em-
anuel's Church and the Dewey Avenue
Reformed Church. In the latter a
Young Woman's Missionary Auxiliary
was organized. We believe the women
of Emanuel's will soon effect an organi-
zation to be affiliated with our general
work. They are already doing a wonder-
ful work under the leadership of Rev.
Mr. Bode.
Feb. 27th a missionary address was
delivered in St. John's Reformed Church,
Lansdale, Rev. Rothtrock, pastor. The
occasion marked the transition of the
Ladies' Society into a regular Woman's
Missionary Society with 105 members,
accepting the full program as outlined
in the Budget. This work was all ac-
complished by personal work on the part
of the pastor's wife and faithful help-
ers.
* * *
New societies reported by Miss Ruth
Nott: Madison, Wis., 13 members. Miss
Amelia Bolliger, Secretary. Immanuel's,
Milwaukee, Wis., re-organized.
In the Campbellsport, Wis., Woman's
Society, they have decided to place a
Thank Offering Box in each home. This
is a beginning which trust will result
in a Woman's Missionary Society later
on.
* * *
Miss Marcelene Kefauver of Middle-
town, Md., writes as follows: "For years
the Pastor's Aid Society of our
Church has contributed to the Mis-
sionary cause of the church. In this '
w^y the aid was really doing dbuble
duty. We have always been interested.
Our Church sent Rev. and Mrs.
George Snyder to China. In Novem-
ber Mrs. Snyder died, so the ladies felt
that a fitting memorial to her life would
be to carry on the work of her heart by
organizing a separate Missionary Society.
The organization was effected with the
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Memorial service on^ Sunday, Jan. 9th.
1921." Their first meeting was held on
Feb. 17th, with 78 members present.
Mrs. Anna Main is the President. The
society started out right by introducing
the budget envelopes and the study books.
'Though dead, she still speaketh."
A Partial List of Summer Schools of
Missions
Women, Young Women, Presidents,
Program Leaders of Missionary Socie-
ties, Sunday School Teachers, Those
who wish to he Leaders in Christian
Activities, are requested td notice the
dates and the places most convenient and
plan to attend olie of the Summer Schools
of Missions.
East Northfield, Massachusetts, July
5-12 — Mrs. Philip M. Rossman, chair-
man, 203 W. 85th St., New York.
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Aug. 23-30
—Mrs. W. P. Topping, 706 Douglas
Ave., Elgin, 111.
Winona Lake, Indiana, June 23-30 —
Mrs. W. P. Topping.
Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa.,
June 28-July 5 — Mrs. Irwin Hendricks,
Denominational Representative, Cham-
bersburg, Pa.
Mt. Hermon, California, July 9-16 —
Mrs. Charles C. Lombard, 2227 Seventh
Ave. E., Oakland City, Cal.
Los Angeles, Cal., Mav 29- June A —
Mrs. A. W. Rider, 612 St. Paul Ave.,
Los Angeles, Cal.
Chautauqua, New York, Aug. 13-19,
Home Missions; Aue. 19-26, Foreig-n
Missions, Mrs. Samuel Semple, chairman
Home Missions Week.
'T have been a subscriber to The Out-
look OF Missions since the first copy
was printed and have enjoyed every copy.
J like it because of its variety of con-
tent." Miss Olga Brobst.
Youngsfown, 0.
'T would not want to be v/ithout our
good Missionary Magazine."
Mrs. a. C. Frye.
Hagerstown, Md.
[April,
J E
Youn^ Woman's Missionary
Auxiliary
Mrs. J. Edward Omwake, secbbtahy
B =H
The Social Session
"'use hospitality one to another"
THE question is sometimes asked
**How shall we increase interest
in our Young Woman's Missionary
AuxiHary?" One answer is, have a "so-
cial session," an "open meeting" several
times a year. Young girls, as a rule, are
naturally gracious and hospitable, and
such occasions give them an excellent op-
portunity for the expression of a beautiful
missionary spirit. Their enthusiasm, fine
sense of co-operation, and willingness to
do are virtues which cannot be over-esti-
mated.
The open meeting may be held by the
Auxiliary alone, or in conjunction with
the Woman's Missionary Society. Added
interest may be derived by having the
girls invite their young men friends.
This gives the boys a chance to learn a
little about the work the girls are doing,
and incidentally it may create a desire
for some form of missionary activity
among them.
The program for such a meeting ad-
mits of great variety. You may have
an evening of music, — instrumental and
vocal, interspersed with appropriate read-
ing andj recitations ; or you may have mu-
sic or an address by an invited speaker;
or perhaps a pageant or playlet demon-
strating some phase of missionary work
may be more pleasing. Whatever your
program, let it be rich in missionary
spirit, plainly teaching that Jesus is the
only hope of mankind, whether we live
in favored America or in lands of ignor-
ance and superstition. The offering re-
ceived at an open meeting will help very
materially to carry on the work of the
Auxiliary.
After the program allow time for an
hour of real sociability during which
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•dainty refreshments may be served. These
"get together" meetings add new flavor
to the Hfe of the v^hole congregation.
Just one more suggestion of a social
nature, w^hich tends to increase the inter-
est of our girls, is for the two patronesses
from the Woman's Missionary Society to
open their homes to the girls for a meet-
ing. They appreciate immensely 'such in-
terest in them and in their work. Try it.
I The Mission Band
I Mrs. M. G. Schucker, secrbtart
B =B
Anent the Story
Your method of instruction is mainly
by story. To tell a story well
is an art which has its technique.
Leaders should read a treatise on
this technique so as to avoid likely
errors and acquire approved form
and method. The Sunday School library
might have one or several such treatises
as "Stories and Story-telling in Moral
and Religious Education," by Edward
Porter St. John, (Pilgrim Press) ; and
"How to Tell Stories to Children," by
Sara Cone Byrant, (Houghton, Mifflin &
Co.). Try to find something helpful in
these suggestions.
1. The Purpose of the story is to be
in the mind of the narrator — whether it
is to inform, illustrate, touch the emo-
tiotis, guide conduct, impress religious
truth and sentiments, or nourish the spirit
of helpfulness and loving devotion, etc.
n. Know the story absolutely. To tell
it haltingly with faulty memory, disor-
dered sequence, or needless repetitions
spoils the effect. Do not memorize, for
this prevents spontaneity which ensues
when the story-teller so enters into the
story as to clearly appreciate the feelings
aroused and to make it partake of the
nature of a personal experience.
HI. Analyse the story as to climax,
events leading up to it, and conclusions.
IV. Practice by telling it to an imagin-
ary Band. You lose self-consciousness
thereby. You make the story over and it
becomes in a manner your own and the
form of expression improves by prac-
tice.
Y. Unity. Tell it simply, directly,
omitting what does not promote the pur-
pose in view.
VI. Elaboration and Emhellishment
may be sparsely and carefully made by
descriptions, details, epithets. Dramatic
effect is desired but may not be obtained
by posing and voice-manipulation but by
identifying one's self with the spirit of
the story. Telling and gesture should not
so much ilkistrate as be suggestive. Visu-
alize what you say. Be interested in and
enjoy the content of the story yourself
and tell it with zest. Avoid affectation
in tone and manner. Do not moralize.
Do not interrupt the story to correct
childen.
I hope these few suggestions will in-
duce you to read a treatise on story-tell-
ing.
Our Honor Roll
Mrs. B. F. Andrews, Akron, O.
Mrs. C. S. Fickes, Hanover, Pa.
Miss Gertrude E. Fritz, Buffalo, N. Y.
Miss Sue E. Kendig, Lancaster, Pa.
Mrs. H. M. Leidy, Harmony, Pa.
Mrs. L. Salome Schucker, Pittsburgh,
Pa.
Mrs. J. P. Stahl, Springfield, O.
Mrs. W. D. Strouse, Martinsburg,
W. Va.
Each of the above named Secretaries
of Literature sent us ten or more new
subscribers during the past month.
Miss Kendig, who has recently been
appointed Secretary of Literature of the
W. M. S. of St. Paul's. Lancaster, has
sent us 49 New Subscribers during her
short term of office. A splendid record !
Rev. and Mrs. Stahl have succeeded
in placing the Outlook of Missions in
25 of their families, during the past
month. These subscriptions were gath-
ered while visiting their members.
THE OUTLOOK OF MISSIONS
CIRCULATION. 11,700
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MISSIONARY FINANCE
BOARD OF HOME MISSIONS
General Fund Receipts for February
Synods —
1921.
1920.
Increase.
$7,018.52
$4,664.91
$2,353.61
Potomac
4,212.19
2.337.99
1.874.20
Ohio
2,652 73
1,817.54
835.19
1,675.00
1.179.00
496.00
100.00
50.00
German of the East
562.38
372.00
190.38
♦Central
15.00
15.00
♦Northwest
♦Southwest
fW. M. S. G. S
1,553.05
947.00
606.05
Y. P. S. C. E
All other sources
150.00
65.00
85.00
$17,988.87 $11,483.44 $6,505.43
♦For Hungarian and Harbor Missions only.
fThe W. M. S. gave $368.00 additional for Church-building Funds and other causes.
BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS
Comparative Receipts for Month of February
1920.
1921.
Synods.
Appt.
Specials.
Totals.
Appt.
Specials.
Totals. Increase.Decrease
Eastern
$5,297.74 $1,484.33
$6,782.07
$6,207.55
$2,340.70
$8,548.25
$1,766.18
Ohio
1,226.00
1.369.95
2,595.95
2,837.96
1,757.30
4,595.26
1,999.31
Northwest
608.66
608.66
24.00
477.43
501.43
$107.23
Pittsburgh
1,079.00
167.62
1,246.62
1,675.00
357.27
2,032.27
785.65
3,280.54
657.49
3,938.03
4.131.74
773.08
4,904.82
966.79
German of East.
389.25
305.16
694.41
315.32
266.74
582.06
112.35
170.00
370.98
540.98
665.55
324.33
989.88
448.90
140.00
143.30
283.30
100.00
161.61
261.61
21.69
Southwest
179.29
320.35
499.64
331.69
468.67
800.36
300.72
W. M. S. G. S..
1,241.00
1,241.00
6,410.05
6,410.05
5.169.05
Annuity Bonds. . .
500.00
500.00
50.00
50.00
450.00
Bequests
Miscellaneous . . .
200.30
200.30
30.00
30.00
170.30
Totals $11,761.82 $7,369.14 $19,130.96$16,288.81 $13,417.18 $29,705.99 $11,436.60 $861.57
Net Increase, $10,575.03
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May 1 to 7
Object: To place the Outlook of Missions in every home.
"Under the Trees at the Lancaster Conference.
THE TIME AND THE PLACE
The dates of the various conferences are as
f(>llows:
Frederick, Md July 9 to July 16
Newton, N. C July 19 to July 24
Tiffin, Ohio July 23 to July 31
Lancaster, Pa July 30 to Aug. 7
Kidgeview Park, Pa Aug. 1 to Aug. 7
CoMcgcville, Pa Aug. 8 to Aug. 14
^Mission House, Wis Aug. 15 to Aug. 21
Inaiaiiapolis, Ind Aug. 24 to Aug. 28
Put one of these dates on your summer
schedule. DO IT NOW.
THE PURPOSE
The purpose of the Summer Missionary
Conference is threefold: To discover, to
develop, and tc train missionary leaders for
V. ork in their own churches.
SOME BY-PRODUCTS
Spiritual uplift. Widened horizon. In-
creased knowledge. Deepened convictions.
Heightened aspirations. Enlarged sympathies.
Many new and fine friendships. Greater
efficiency. A delightful holiday. Physical
invigoration. An enriched life in body, soul,
and spirit.
SUBJECTS or STUDY
GENERAL. For Adults. ''The Mission
Study Class Leader,'' by T. H. P. Sailer.
Tor Young People. "Making Life Count,"
by Eugene C. Foster.
HOME MISSIONS. "Facing Our Unfin-
ished Task in America. " For Adults. A book
on the home mission tasks revealed by the
surveys, by H. Paul Douglass. For Young
People. A book on the challenge presented
to young people by the unfinished tasks of
the Church in America, by Fred Eastman.
FOREIGN MISSIONS. "The :\rodern Mis-
sionary and His Work." For Adults. A new
{ind revised edition of "The Why and How
of Foreign Missions, ' ' by Arthur J. Brown.
For Young People. A book on the varied
phases of foreign missionary service, by J.
Lovell Murray.
THE DAILY PROGRAM
The daily program is planned for lioth
spiritual and physical invigoration. In addi-
tion to the above classes there are hours of
praver and conference, of Bible instruction,
of rest and recreation during the day. Then
there are the sunset services and the inspira-
tional platform meetings in the evening. A
week of i)r:iyer and conference and good
fellowshi]) ill the beautiful environment of
the confereuv'e campuses will bring to you
new strength for the church work of the fall
;ind winter. Plan now to be present at your
favorite conference.
I'or additional information, addross De-
partment of Missionary Education, Rev.
Arlliur V. Cas^elman, Director, 70?> Reformed
('lH:rch Building, Fifteenth and Race streets,
Philadelphia, Pa.
THE BOARDS OF MISSIONS OF GENERAL SYNOD
Hcadqi^arters : Fifteenth and Race Streets, Philadelphia, Pa.
President,
Rtr. Charles E. Miller, D. D., hh. D.
Vice-President,
Rev. C. B. Schneder, D. D.
General Secretary,
Rer. Charles E. Schaeffer, D. D.
Recording Secretary,
Rer. J. Harvey Mickley, D. D.
Treasurer,
Joseph S. Wise.
Superintendents,
Joseph S. Wise, Church-building.
Lev. David A. Souders, D. D., Immigratioa.
Rev. Tames M. Mullan, Eastern.
Rev. John C. Horning, Western.
R«v. T. P. Bolliger, D. D., German.
BOARD OF HOME MISSIONS
Attorneys for the Board,
C. M. Boush, Esq.
F. C. Brunhouse, Esq.
Members of the Executive Committee,
Rev. Charles E. Miller, D. D., 1,1,. D., Rev. C. B.
Schneder, D. D., Rev. J. Harvey Mickley, D. D.,
Rev. I. C. Fisher, D. D., Elder F. C. Brunhouse, Esq.
Members of the Board,
Rev. Charles E. Miller, D. D., hh. D., Rev. C. B.
Schneder, D. D., Rev. I. C. Fisher, D. D., Rev. John
Sommerlatte, Rev. J. H. Mickley, D. D., Rev. G. D.
Elliker, Rev. E. R. Williard, D. D., Rev. J. C.
Leonard, D. D., Elder F. C. Brunhouse, Esq., Elder
E. ly. Coblentz, Esq., Elder E. J. Titlow, Elder D. J.
Snyder.
President,
Rev. James I. Good, D. D., LL. D.
Vice-President,
Hon. Horace Ankeney.
Secretary,
Rev. Allen R. Bartholomew, D. D.
Assistant Secretary,
Rev. John H. Poorman.
Treasurer,
Rev. Albert S. Bromer.
Treasurer Emeritus,
Elder Joseph L,. Lemberger, Phar. D.
Legal Advisor,
Elder John W. Appel, Esq.
Members of the Executive Committee,
Rev. James I. Good, D. D., LL. D., Hon. Horace
Ankeney, Rev. Allen R. Bartholomew, D. D., Rev.
Albert S. Bromer, Rev. Charles E. Creitz, D. D.,
Elder Joseph L, Lemberger, Phar. D., Elder David
A. Miller, Elder J^ Q. Truxal, Esq.
BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS
Members of the Board,
Rev. James I, Good, D. D., LL. D., Rev. Allen R.
Bartholomew, D. D., Rev. Conrad Hassel, Rev. Albert
S. Bromer, Rev. Frederick Mayer, D. D., Rev. Irwin
W. Hendricks, D. D., Rev. Charles E. Creitz, D. D.,
Rev. John M. G. Darms, D. D., Elder John W.
Appel, Esq., Elder George F. Bareis, Elder William
W. Anspach, Elder Horace Ankeney, Elder David
A. Miller, Elder J. Q. Truxal, Esq., Elder Henry C.
Heckerman.
Field Secretaries.
Rev. Jacob G. Rupp, AUentown, Pa.
Rev. Daniel Burghalter, D. D., Tiffin, O.
Medical Examiner,
Dr. John H. Dubbs.
Meetings.
Annual Board Meeting, first Tuesday in March.
Executive Committee meetings are held monthly ex-
cept in July and August.
FORMS OF BEQUEST FOR MISSIONS
Ptr the Board of Home Missions.
I give and bequeath to the Board of Home
Missions of the Reformed Church in the
United States, of which Elder Joseph S. Wise,
of Philadelphia, Pa., is treasurer, the sum of
dollars.
For the Board of Foreign Missions.
I give and bequeath to the Board of Foreign
Missions of the Reformed Church in th^
United States, of which Rev. Albert S. Bromer,
of Philadelphia, Pa., is treasurer, the sum of
dollars.
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY
President,
Mrs. B. B. Krammes, 14 Clinton ave.. Tiffin, Ohio.
Vice-Presidents,
Mrs. W. R. Harris, 279 Wiles street, Morgantown,
W. Va.
Mrg. L. W. Stolte, 205 Jones St., Dayton, Ohio.
Recording Secretary,
Mies Helen Barris, Canal Winchester, Ohio.
Corresponding Secretary,
Mrs. H. D. Hershey, Irwin, Pa.
Treasurer,
Mrs. I«ewis L. Anewalt, 814 Walnut street, Allem-
town. Pa.
Statistical Secretary,
Mrs. Anna L. Miller, 534 Sixth street, N. W.,
C^ton, Ohio.
Secretary of Literature,
Mri. Irvin W. Hendricks, Chambersburg, Pa.
Secretary of Thank Offerings,
Mrs. Allen K. Zartman, 1354 Grand ave., Dayton, O.
Executive Secretary,
MiM Carrie M. Kerschner, Reformed Church Btiild-
Ing, Philadelphia, Pa.
Secretary of Life Members and Members
in Memoriam,
Mrs. R. Ella Hahn, 1216 Perkioraen ave., Reading,
Pa.
Secretary of Young Woman's Auxiliaries,
Mrs. J. Edward Omwake, Greencastle, Pa.
Secretary #/ Mission Band Department,
Mrs. M. G. Schucker, 1306 Lancaster ave., Swiii-
rale. Pa.
Student Secretary,
Miss Anna M. Grim, 221 Lehigh street, Allentown,
Pa.
Secretary of Organization in German Synods,
Miss Ruth Nott, 1192 Ninth street, Milwaukee, Wii.
Secretary of Temperance,
Mrs. Conrad Clever, Hagerstown, Md.
Printing Committee, Chairman,
Mrs. C. A. Krout, 240 S. Washington street, Tiffio,
Ohio.
Historian,
Mrs. Daniel Burghalter, 272 E. Market street.
Tiffin, Ohio.
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